Quotes About Nationalism

Quite simply, without UKIP, there would not have been a referendum. I am convinced that the 'we want our country back, we want our borders back' message that we took across the country on an open-top double decker energised non-voters to back Brexit.

Although economic grievances were critical in delivering the referendum result, Brexit has fomented an all-out culture war.

Actually, I never wanted an E.U. referendum, and I think those who called for it will one day wish they hadn't.

I feel great, and I'll happily continue to be at Vicente del Bosque's disposal, because defending my country is very important to me.

I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.

Bret 'the Hitman' Hart from circa, say, 1997, the U.S.-bashing Bret Hart, would have to lay a beat down on John Cena, I think.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.

We play from the bottom of our hearts, for our country.

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

I would like that no citizen of the state feels alone and helpless. The entire nation is with them.

I am the hero of Africa.

It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.

If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.

Perhaps when the next Great War comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their more devoted followers do not look to them for an appraisal of the facts but for the stimulation of nationalistic loyalties

One prod to the nerve of nationalism and the intellectual decencies can vanish, the past can be altered, and the plainest facts can be denied.

The following are the principal characteristics of nationalist thought: Obsession. As nearly as possible, no nationalist ever thinks, talks, or writes about anything except the superiority of his own power unit.

It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King' than of stealing from a poor box

War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Ocea- nia never sets eyes on a citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.