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Quotes About Nationalism

Para bien o para mal, a despecho del turco, el francés, el holandés, el inglés y la puta que los parió, España tuvo, durante un siglo y medio, bien agarrados a Europa y al mundo por las pelotas
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Si al menos fueran extranjeros los enemigos de España, todavía. Pero no. Todos los que con la espada, con la pluma, con la palabra, agravan y perpetúan los males de la Nación son españoles.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
por poner un ejemplo que vale para cualquier otro sitio, las calles de Barcelona, que hoy frecuentan miles de fervorosos patriotas locales portando esteladas y señeras, se abarrotaron, con los padres y abuelos de esos mismos patriotas, y en mayor número que ahora, de banderas rojigualdas, brazos en alto, caras al sol y en España empieza a amanecer.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
el líder de la derecha, Gil Robles, había afirmado: Sociedad única y patria única. Y al que quiera discutirlo hay que aplastarlo.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
The people need education,' Lolita Palma interjects. 'Without it, there can be no patriotism.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Sus compatriotas son refractarios a demasiadas cosas. Ni el fascismo ni el comunismo calan de verdad en ellos; he visto allí más oportunistas que gente con ideas firmes... Sólo el anarquismo encaja con su carácter, y eso los hace imprevisibles y peligrosos.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Apatía y resignación, son las palabras nacionales
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
el nacionalismo catalán jugaba fuerte para conseguir una autonomía propia (la primera pitada al himno nacional tuvo lugar en 1925 en el campo del F. C. Barcelona, con el resultado inmediato —eran tiempos de menos mamoneo y paños calientes que ahora— del cierre temporal del estadio).
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
It was also clear to me that without a truly internationalist component nationalism was reactionary. There was nothing revolutionary about nationalism by itself—Hitler and Mussolini were nationalists. Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples' freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people.
~ Assata Shakur
Je suis féministe parce que je suis Algérienne
~ Assia Djebar
In time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.
~ August Bebel
Deutschland, Deutschland äber Alles [Germany above everything].
~ August Heinrich Hoffmann
Tarring regional demands with the Indian brush became such an entrenched part of the official discourse of nationalism in Pakistan that the managers of the centralized state regarded legitimate demands for provincial autonomy with deep suspicion.
~ Ayesha Jalal
At the root of Pakistan's national identity crisis has been the unresolved debate on how to square the state's self- proclaimed Islamic identity with the obligations of a modern nation- state. This has been confounded by an official history that cannot explain the gaping inconsistencies between the claims of Muslim nationalism and the actual achievement of statehood at the moment of the British withdrawal.
~ Ayesha Jalal
The claim that nations and nationalism are modern ideological constructs invented by intellectuals and spread by means of state authority and the state's apparatuses is a misleading half-truth that is itself a modernist (or postmodernist) ideological construct originating with intellectuals and requiring deconstruction.
~ Azar Gat
Milliyetçilik ayd?n insan i?idir. (s. 451)
~ ?evket Süreyya Aydemir
Son Türkistan, gene kahraman?n? yaratacak ve bu kahraman bir bozkurt olacakt?. Ufuklardan bir bozkurt bekleniyordu. Bu bozkurt ç?kmal?yd?. Bir bayrak açmal?, bir devlet kurmal?, emirler verilip emirler al?nmal?yd?. Nitekim bir gün bütün bunlar? yapacak olan bozkurt, yani beklenilen kahraman ç?kt? da: Mustafa Kemal Pa?a...
~ ?evket Süreyya Aydemir
Our duty would be to create, in the place of the outdated (Ottoman) Empire, a new national entity in harmony with its historic and linguistic unity and its desires.
~ ?evket Süreyya Aydemir
In the transformed world political context of today, it is more essential than ever that the critique of democracy in the name of difference developed by oppositional intellectuals be formulated so carefully that these thoughts cannot be exploited for nationalist, tribalist, and xenophobic purposes. It is imperative that the politics of the 'differend' not be settled beyond and at the margins of democratic politics.
~ Åžeyla Benhabib
Paranoid nationalism may well be an intellectual void, and appeal to the lowest instincts—there is nothing in North Korean ideology that a child of twelve cannot grasp at once—but for that very reason it has proven itself capable of uniting citizens of all classes, and inspiring them through bad times as well as good ones.
~ B.R. Myers
Nationalism is about putting the (ethno-)nation above liberal-democratic and leftist values alike. Once one takes that step, one is not separated from other nationalists by anything irreducible.
~ B.R. Myers
Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
~ Bashar al-Assad
At a certain moment, Yugoslavia stopped being rational, and then you end up going to war.
~ Emir Kusturica
I personally think our national anthem is not patriotic enough. There is another poem by Dwijendralal Ray called 'Dhono Dhanne Pushpe Bhora,' which is more soul-stirring as a national anthem.
~ Victor Banerjee