Nationalism Quotes
The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence.
One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.
Individual effort is good but collective effort is better. We need a NETWORK of nation builders
The true champions of a nation's freedom are those who reject the limitations of stereotypes and affirm the rich diversity of human nature to be found.
Many people tell me that I should become a politician but I tell them no I want to do something good for the nation.
Our side has agents. Their side has spies.
The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.
Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
Will there be people who will have the conscience to contribute to the country by changing themselves first? That is the need of the moment.
The greatest sacrifice a man can make is the image of his soul.
Our country, our people, and our laws have to be our top priority.
Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.
Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.
There is at least one advantage to being an Indonesian citizen: With this country's expanse of land and even greater expanse of sea, it's not difficult finding space for one's grave.
If you fight for yourself, you have awakened your conscience, but if you fight for people you will awaken a nation.
... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...
The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
ABYSSOur country livesAmong the deadAnd dies among the livingSometimes.
Unless we can restore what George Orwell called patriotism as opposed to nationalism, we will see the rise of the far right, as is happening already in Europe.
No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.
The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
In general, those who resort to mass murder on a collective scale always put forward the justification that they acted on behalf of the nation.
I’ve never really understood national pride, or even ethnic pride. It should be more about pride at being a human and living on this planet with fellow humans surely, let’s widen the parameters a bit
C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!
It's pathetic how a man can stand by and do nothing as a whole nation cleans out the garbage and makes itself great"-Hans Junior
In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.
The urge to lie is produced by the contradictions in our lives. We are made to declare love for our country, while it tramples our rights and dignity.
Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered and narcissistic individuals.
5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.
Far from marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins.
This two-track plan of nationalism and development (in China) is a historically powerful weapon.
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness: it invents nations where they do not exist.
Born in inquity and conceived in sin the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
I have never understood why one's affections must be confined as once with women to a single country.
Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
