Top 100 Quotes About Nationalism
#1. In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.
Eric Hoffer
#2. Patriarchy creates megapatterns that affect us all
even as we forge different individual choices within them
just as do themegapatterns of nationalism or racism.
Gloria Steinem
#3. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.
Malcolm X
#4. Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
Elliott Abrams
#5. The old sporadic fanaticism of religious hatred had been skillfully perverted into the cold, steady fanaticism of national hate.
Franz Werfel
#6. Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.
Mahatma Gandhi
#7. In the new Europe, in any case, nationalism is something of an anomaly, given that the drive is to the elimination of national boundaries and national sovereignty.
Theodore Dalrymple
#8. After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.
Stephen Kinzer
#9. same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, "although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge," wrote Orwell, tends to be "uninterested in what happens in the real world." Nationalism
Timothy Snyder
#10. Nationalism is cured by traveling.
Shakira
#11. The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.
Andrea Levy
#12. 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.
Bryant McGill
#13. 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.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
#14. Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
Oliver Stone
#15. German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
Pankaj Mishra
#16. ABYSS
Our country lives
Among the dead
And dies among the living
Sometimes.
Visar Zhiti
#17. 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.
Gideon Haigh
#18. All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
John Lukacs
#19. Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.
Bryant McGill
#20. France bleeds, but liberty smiles, and before the smile of liberty, France forgets her wound.
Victor Hugo
#21. The love we have for our native land would be good and praiseworthy if it did not degenerate, as we see it does everywhere, into vanity, the spirit of predominance, acquisitiveness, hate, envy, nationalism, and militarism
Henri Barbusse
#22. The West will have to choose: either to come to terms with Russians, or to receive a retaliatory blow. This retaliatory blow will not be by means of war. We will resort to the same weapon: nationalism.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky
#23. C" is for colonies
Rightly we boast
that of all the great nations
Great Britain has most!
Mrs. Ernest Ames
#24. We are too small and our statecraft is too feeble to be seen by a spacecraft between the Earth and the Moon. From this vantage point, our obsession with nationalism is nowhere in evidence.
Carl Sagan
#25. There is no real conflict between nationalism and globalism. On the contrary: It is to the extent that a nation becomes more global in its achievements that it becomes admirable.
Nicos Hadjicostis
#26. When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#27. There's a difference between a Nazi and a German.
Samuel Fuller
#28. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?
Howard Zinn
#29. The modern age has witnessed the rise of a number of new natural-law religions, such as liberalism, Communism, capitalism, nationalism and Nazism. These creeds do not like to be called religions, and refer to themselves as ideologies.
Yuval Noah Harari
#30. The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty.
George Shultz
#31. The antisemites who called themselves patriots introduced that new species of national feeling which consists primarily in a complete whitewash of one's own people and a sweeping condemnation of all others.
Hannah Arendt
#32. Nationalism is inspired by the highest ideals of the human race, satyam [the true], shivam [the god], sundaram [the beautiful]. Nationalism in India has ... roused the creative faculties which for centuries had been lying dormant in our people.
Subhas Chandra Bose
#33. A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.
Pierre Berton
#34. The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.
Franz Grillparzer
#35. But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#36. The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.
Bryant McGill
#37. I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.
Dylan Moran
#38. Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.
Anthony Daniels
#39. All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
Geoff Mulgan
#40. Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#41. If Nepal is to become a new Nepal, she must first become free from ethnic segregation.
Santosh Kalwar
#42. It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire
#43. All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents, as my grandparents.
Philip Kerr
#44. The more extreme conservatives will embrace religion and nationalism to a higher degree.
Tyler Cowen
#45. Our true nationality is mankind.
H.G.Wells
#47. No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.
Abhijit Naskar
#48. Nationalism does nothing but teach you to hate people you never met, and to take pride in accomplishments you had no part in.
Doug Stanhope
#49. Just as communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and equality" and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.
Sydney J. Harris
#50. So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.
John Stuart Mill
#51. Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
Jack Schwartz
#52. I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism
the idolatry of the 20th century.
Cornel West
#53. It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity.
Duop Chak Wuol
#54. A nation's not a child, for God's sake ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.
David Hewson
#55. It wasn't like the World Trade Center, something vile and astonishing within our own borders, happening to people who'd saved coins of the same currency in their piggybanks when they were children. I knew intellectually that shouldn't make a difference, but it seemed to.
Michael Marshall
#56. 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.
Nilantha Ilangamuwa
#57. I thought that a man might be an enemy of other men, of the differing moments of other men, but never an enemy of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams, or the West wind.
Jorge Luis Borges
#59. True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#60. The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance. Also, the belief that a people who share a common language, history, and culture should constitute an independent nation, free of foreign domination.
Ernest Gellner
#61. Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt
#62. The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
Malcolm X
#64. The times of Arab nationalism and unity are gone forever. These ideas which mobilized the masses are only a worthless currency. Libya has had to put up with too much from the Arabs for whom it has poured forth both blood and money.
Muammar Al-Gaddafi
#65. The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.
Terre Thaemlitz
#66. Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.
Albert B. Cleage Jr.
#67. Take a stand that reflects the widest horizons of your soul if you don't want to be a slave to external powers.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#68. I believe that it isn't victories but defeats that promote nationalism.
Orhan Pamuk
#69. The new Turkish identity, which I call Muslim nationalism, is that of a pious Muslim Turk whose subjectivity and vision for the future is shaped by an imperial Ottoman past overlaid onto a republican state framework, but divorced from the Kemalist state project.
Jenny White
#71. If he is weak enough to grow smaller to fit himself to his covering, then it becomes a process of gradual suicide by shrinkage of the soul.
Rabindranath Tagore
#72. Madness is something rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. In Soviet writing the demonization of all forms of Ukrainian nationalism has a long tradition, and would make an interesting study in itself. Soviet writers considered almost any criticism of their state - and, from the 1930s, of the Russian Empire - as "fascist" or "counterrevolutionary,
Myroslav Shkandrij
#74. The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.
C.V. Wedgwood
#75. People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
Nicola Sturgeon
#76. Nationalism is what makes some people think they are better than others and just as often inspires delusions of superiority.
Christina Engela
#77. 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
#78. Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
Storm Jameson
#79. America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.
Ferdinand Marcos
#80. The fact of the matter is that nationalism thinks in terms of historical destinies, while racism dreams of eternal contaminations, transmitted from the origins of time through an endless sequence of loathsome copulations: outside history.
-Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Nancy Ordover
#81. The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
Terry Eagleton
#82. That's a mistake I think that a lot of Western observers make is to assume that Korean nationalism is hundreds if not thousands of years old. When in fact nationalism is incompatible with Korean Confucian tradition.
Brian Reynolds Myers
#83. Is human dignity and human life so cheap that the rights protecting it can be traded away to appease the appetite for intimidation and prejudice of a vicious and self-centered group - for whatever reason, power, politics, nationalism, or unity?
Christina Engela
#84. The conviction that, in Christ, God has reconciled all humanity and all creation leaves no room for nationalism.
C. Christopher Smith
#85. Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.
Ernest Gellner
#86. We need to promote closer cooperation between our militaries and our intelligence. We also need to enhance people-to-people contact, because this leads to better understanding between nations, and reduce the space for a clash of nationalism.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
#87. Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.
Bryant McGill
#88. If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.
Michael Billig
#89. I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.
Rosika Schwimmer
#90. When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.
Reza Aslan
#91. The good shall prevail in the end, the truth shall be the rule and the Cameroonian soul shall be free," Hans said in an emotion-choked voice, "However, we should never lose our heads; we should always be prepared to forgive all the repentant souls.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#92. The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
Douglas Dunn
#93. I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.
Norman Finkelstein
#94. Zionism has gained my full sympathy and I appreciate
it much higher than what is called nationalism in modern
France. It is a progressive movement, a reawakening,
of which I expect a lot for the entire civilization.
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
#95. In some states militant nationalism has gone to the lengths of dictatorship, the cult of the absolute or totalitarian state and the glorification of war.
Arthur Henderson
#97. Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.
Richard Attias
#98. Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.
Mahatma Gandhi
#99. Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
Stuart Chase
