Quotes About Nationalism

Concluye que una vez que una nación se acostumbra a endeudarse, le es casi imposible llegar a pagar las enormes obligaciones que contrae. Y condena con dureza a los Estados que, para pagar artificialmente lo que deben, desvalorizan sus monedas, con lo que pagan sólo una parte generalmente pequeña de las deudas que contrajeron.

Son cosas irreconciliables, Alice. No se engañe: el patriotismo es una religión, está reñido con la lucidez. Es puro oscurantismo, un acto de fe».

Mi país, nuestros países, son, en un sentido profundo, más ficciones que realidades.

I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril

If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be left alone.

These are some of my behavioral problems... P) Hating France

Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of America because you were born in it?

The fact that Catholic soldiers could die for a country which denied them the worship they wanted was constantly and rightly emphasized during the campaign for Emancipation.

We had to do something [in Bush v. Gore ], because countries were laughing at us. France was laughing at us.

Over the previous 150 years, the border areas of Eupen and St Vith had moved back and forth between France, Prussia, Belgium and Germany, depending on the fortunes of war. In the Belgian elections of April 1939, more than 45 per cent of those in the mainly German-speaking 'eastern cantons' voted for the Heimattreue Front which wanted the area reincorporated into the Reich. But

I saw then that he had lost touch with reality. He lived in a fantasy world of maps and flags.' For Behr, who had been an enthusiastic and 'nationalistic young German officer', the revelation came as a shock. 'It was the end of all my illusions about Hitler. I was convinced that we would now lose the war.

His policy of aggression was stated clearly on the very first page. Yet even though every German couple had to purchase a copy on marriage, few seem to have taken his bellicose predictions seriously.

Nothing, however, stopped the conquerors' resolution to crush every aspect of Basque nationalism. The Basque flag, the ikurriña, was outlawed and use of the Basque language suppressed. Threatening notices were displayed: 'If you are Spanish, speak Spanish.' Regionalist feelings in any form were portrayed as the cancer of the Spanish body politic.

Even, sometimes, top-down fiat: see the strange case of pad Thai, a Chinese-origin noodle dish (like ramen) that got "Thaified" with tamarind and palm sugar and decreed the national street food by the 1930s dictator Phibun—part of his campaign that included renaming Siam as Thailand, banning minority languages, and pushing Chinese vendors off the streets.

The foundation of England's greatness is that Englishmen hate to look fools.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

Small children in uniforms sang 'our army is the best army' with evident pride, and the army goose-stepped along the main road past a platform of officers awarded medals by the kilo.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

He was not only 100 per cent American; he exacted 40 per cent of chauvinistic interest on top of the principal. He was on every occasion heard to say, "We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.

Peace through Defense—Millions for Arms but Not One Cent for Tribute

I shall not be content till this country can produce every single thing we need, even coffee, cocoa, and rubber, and so keep all our dollars at home. If

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America.