Quotes About Nationalism

I am the Haitian flag. He who is my enemy is the enemy of the fatherland.

Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Patriotismo es la convicción de que tu país es superior a todo el resto sólo porque naciste en él

A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.

How can conservatives love their country, love their system of government, love the founders of their government, but resent and often hate the government itself?

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

When you won that title you should know now that you are representing a whole country or nation with your actions and you are now in a glass house or under a microscope and you better be ready to make your people proud.

I have won Russia at least 16 world championships. I have fought for my country.

I had nice years at Ajax, wonderful years with Milan, and won something with the national team.

Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.

I'm so proud to be Canadian. I've been to 58 countries, and they're wonderful countries, but Canada is the best.

I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

I am committed to protecting our country against the threat of terrorism.

I want to be the president of all the people of France, for the patriots facing the threat of nationalism.

Barack Obama is a threat to the continued existence of the United States, and he must be impeached, or resign.

Admitting hundreds of thousands of infiltrators is an existential threat to the State of Israel.

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.

No state should have to endure the threat of terrorists entering our borders.

I think Sinn Fein remains the greatest threat to our democracy and our prosperity as a state.