Top 23 Quotes About Jingoism
#1. Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice
Margaret Thatcher
#2. Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
Claire Danes
#3. Patriotism is about improving the lives of one's fellow citizens and improving one's country's contribution to the world. In the conservative moral hierarchy, our country is taken as simply better than other countries. This is jingoism, not true patriotism, which rests on progressive values.
George Lakoff
#4. The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
David Mamet
#5. I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.
Morrissey
#6. The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.
Chris Hedges
#7. My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.
Katha Pollitt
#8. Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.
Claire Danes
#9. Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.
Noam Chomsky
#10. The real working class, though they hate war and are immune to jingoism, are never really pacifist, because their life teaches them something different. To abjure violence it is necessary to have no experience of it.
George Orwell
#11. When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.
Chelsea Clinton
#12. I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
Peter Berg
#13. War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.
Russell Crowe
#14. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Patrick O'Brian
#15. She'd rather be anonymous in a big city than infamous in a small town.
Lorelei James
#16. Nationalism: the curious notion that barbarism becomes a virtue when it reaches tribal proportions.
Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
#18. His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.
Elton Trueblood
#19. Why is it that those who want to destroy everything good about their country are the quickest to waive the national flag?
Ken Follett
#20. Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
#22. I have more zits now than I did as a teenager. Stress zits.
Tiffani Thiessen
#23. The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted.
Kin Hubbard
