Nationalism Quotes

Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing t...

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English ...

As a woman I have a country; as a woman I cannot divest myself of that country merely bu condemning ...

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nati...

I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're look...

The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfar...

The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a communit...

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to t...

The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our ...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

The old exhortations to nationalist fervor and jingoist pride have begun to lose their appeal. Perha...

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not b...

Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward ha...

I saw exactly one picture of Marx and one of Lenin in my whole stay, but it's been a long time since...

... [T]he other lesson history has taught us - that tyranny and oppression are no match for compassi...

Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an und...

Give me ten thousand Filipino soldiers and I will conquer the world.

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would not have been a war if the Kais...

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do ...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the ...

The oblivion, and I'll say even the historical error, are a key factor in the creation of a nation, ...

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world--and a good part o...

The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady ...

All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human r...

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule...

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world becaus...

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. Both words are normally used in so vague a way th...

[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought sinc...

All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British ...

Political or military commentators, like astrologers, can survive almost any mistake, because their ...

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.

Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most fla...

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security...

Our true nationality is mankind.

The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which...

There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that i...

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism...

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nat...

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary...

I love my country, not my government.

Patriotism, whether it is of the Western kind, or of the Eastern kind, is the same, a poison in huma...

We are asking if thought can be aware of itself. That is rather a complex question, and requires ver...

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where ther...

What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incap...

I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single count...

Imagine there's no countriesIt isn't hard to doNothing to kill or die forAnd no religion tooImagine ...

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more ...

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost...

Nationalism and socialism as actually lived and applied in the 20th century are the same thing (and ...

…The story of the Pledge of Allegiance and its National Socialist roots is a fascinating one. Dr. Re...

Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see th...

How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you ha...

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its libertie...

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi ...

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

Rhetorical bombast, music and song resound, banners wave, flowers and colors serve as symbols, and t...

No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds o...

But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly label...

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong which course is patriotic an...

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Respectable opinion would never consider an assessment of the Reagan Doctrine or earlier exercises i...

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different thin...

Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we ...

The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and aff...

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time a...

What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more tr...

Communication between people of different nationalities enriches human society and makes it more col...

What constitutes the character of a nation is the character of many individual human beings; every n...

The nationalism of a small nation can, with treacherous ease, become detached from its roots in what...

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

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

The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for wh...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human insti...

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based ...

And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists ...

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whateve...

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to o...

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greates...