Quotes About Chauvinism

#1. The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.

Emma Bonino

#2. Chauvinism is totally absent in a heart of a man who truly respects a woman.
~ Angelica Hopes, Life Issues

Angelica Hopes

#3. In the absence of ancient hatreds, chauvinism can easily rustle up modern ones.

Samanth Subramanian

#4. Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Said Musa

#5. Male chauvinism is ... a shrewd method of extracting the maximum of work for the minimum of compensation.

Michael Korda

#6. The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

Carl Sagan

#7. Racism is not merely about individual chauvinism, prejudice, or bigotry. Ruth Glimore reminds us that it is about the ways different groups are 'vulnerable to premature death,' whether at the hands of the state or structures that kill.

Jeff Chang

#8. Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.

Alija Izetbegovic

#9. Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it.

Camille Paglia

#10. It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman.

Michael Chabon

#11. This [egalitarianism vs complementarianism] is not an issue of chauvinism or discrimination. It is an issue of Biblical interpretation.

Alan De Jager

#12. Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

Anne Sullivan

#13. They're a nasty bunch of people. The Riot Club's sole purpose is to celebrate wealth, elitism, hedonism, and excess - just random acts of destruction and chauvinism, which is interesting because our Prime Minister, our Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Mayor of London were are a part of this club.

Max Irons

#14. I strongly believe that antisemitism and Jewish chauvinism can only be fought simultaneously.

Israel Shahak

#15. Germany's siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to 'storm out of the fortress' to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary's hatred of Serbia; Russia's deep fear of Germany; France's vengeful chauvinism; and Britain's ferocious Germanophobia.

Paul Ham

#16. For some of us, "chauvinism" is simply a shortening of "male chauvinism." For others, it is a reminder of the dangers of devotion to the superiority of any group, gender, race, religion, or nation, or even to the truths of any era.

Mary Catherine Bateson

#17. In our international relations, we Chinese people should get rid of great-power chauvinism resolutely, thoroughly, wholly and completely.

Mao Zedong

#18. Together, we came to understand how we beg men to express feelings, but then when men do express feelings, we call it sexism, male chauvinism, or backlash.

Warren Farrell

#19. The worst crime on the part of the revolutionaries would be to give the smallest concessions to the privileges and prejudices of the whites. Whoever gives his little finger to the devil of chauvinism is lost.

Leon Trotsky

#20. Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism.

Joseph Stalin

#21. The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own.

Karl Kraus

#22. The Taliban travesty, a noxious combination of Deobandi rigidity, tribal chauvinism, and the aggression of the traumatized war orphan.

Karen Armstrong

#23. You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting "Vanity," thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

John Berger

#24. Human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

Edward W. Said

#25. People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

Banksy

#26. Actually, since I'm gay I think I should count for two guys instead of just one. I mean, in me you get the male point of view and you don't have to worry about me wanting to touch your boobies.

P.C. Cast

#27. I was too old-fashioned male-chauv to allow that; we discussed for a minute and I wound up with the couch

Joe Haldeman

#28. The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on 'our side'. Is it?

Christopher Hitchens

#29. So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

Andrew Sean Greer

#30. Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

M. Ageyev

#31. The real woman does not want to be equal but different.

Federico Mangahas

#32. When a woman didn't enjoy it, she leaves early in the morning. Those who had a nice time will wait until the sun comes out, requests breakfast and taxi money. In the morning that lady requested breakfast and taxi money. You don't ask for taxi money from somebody who raped you.

Julius Malema

#33. Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#34. Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.

Hillary Johnson

#35. Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Raheel Farooq

#36. Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Ma Jian

#37. If you're asking all this because of Wendell, forget it. Wendell has a few marbles missing when it comes to women. I like that expression very much, even though I disagree. If anything, Wendell has more marbles than he needs when it comes to women.

Francisco X Stork