Quotes About Nationalism

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

Once upon a time the English knew who they were.

In time of war, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers.

It is time to finish off the U.S. once and for all.

You'll never make America great again, [Donald] Trump, but you can extend her time.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into Paris under a German flag

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

America spends billions of dollars protecting the borders of other countries around the world. It's high time we start protecting our own.

It is now time for our nation to frustrate the wild dreams of the whites.

The U.S. should stop garrisoning the globe, subsidizing rich friends, and reconstructing poor enemies. Instead, it's about time Washington focused on defending America and its people.

the Mohaves were highly nationalistic, their sense of patriotism had always been more a mental than a territorial construct—one that would soon be tested.

I am speaking, as I know it is rude to do, of the Social Darwinists, the eugenicists, the Imperialists, the Scientific Socialists who showed such firmness in reshaping civilization in Eastern Europe, China, Cambodia, and elsewhere, and, yes, of the Nazis. Darwin influenced the nationalist writer Heinrich von Treitschke and the biologist Ernst Haeckel, who influenced Hitler and also the milieu in which he flourished.

In America, since we are an immigrant country, our "nativists" may be first- or second-generation Americans whose parents or grandparents were themselves considered suspect on these same grounds. It is almost as interesting as it is disheartening to learn that nativist rhetoric can have impact in a country where precious few can claim to be native in any ordinary sense.

though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian.

patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

capitalismo internacional es el enemigo natural del nacionalismo.

We should not allow patriotism to do violence to our lucidity, our reason, our intelligence.

Make no mistake: patriotism is a religion, the enemy of lucidity. It is pure obscurantism, an act of faith.

No menos acertado fue al advertir que el movimiento independentista de Cataluña y el País Vasco, dos importantes regiones de España, sería en el futuro uno de los problemas más graves con los que tendría que bregar su país.

El patriotismo es el último refugio de los canallas

El «espíritu tribal», fuente del nacionalismo, ha sido el causante, con el fanatismo religioso, de las mayores matanzas en la historia de la humanidad.

Sí, venía del país de los gauchos, pero no tenía nada de exótico ni de primitivo y su obra no alardeaba de color local.