Nationalism Quotes | Quotes about Nationalism

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  • Nationalism Quote #1

    (on his thought on excessive nationalism) ...the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one were completely possessed by it.

    Natsume Soseki

  • Nationalism Quote #2

    [Der Zoll] ist ein Gesellschaftsspiel und eine Religion, die Religion der Vaterländer.

    Kurt Tucholsky

  • Nationalism Quote #3

    [Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet

    George Orwell

  • Nationalism Quote #4

    A banal mysticism, which is so banal that all the mysticism seems to have evaporated long ago, binds 'us' to the homeland - that special place which is more than a place, more than a geophysical area.

    Michael Billig

  • Nationalism Quote #5

    A community that is engaged and working together can be a powerful force.

    Idowu Koyenikan

  • Nationalism Quote #6

    A country isn’t something concrete, composed of intertwined individuals interlocked together. That’s absurd. A country is abstract, with some silly frilly flag and pomp and a song—a national anthem. But dust off the glitter, replace the flag, change the tune, and the people are still there, with their intertangled mesh of relationships that exist above and beyond mere country.

    Jarod Kintz

  • Nationalism Quote #7

    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

  • Nationalism Quote #8

    A true patriot never abandons his country at the hour of need.

    Auliq Ice

  • Nationalism Quote #9

    ABYSS

    Our country lives
    Among the dead
    And dies among the living

    Sometimes.

    Visar Zhiti

  • Nationalism Quote #10

    After Napoleon's 1815 defeat at Waterloo, Europeans had created nation-states in the image and likeness of Napoleon. The new states became the foci of popular affection, even worship. All organized themselves as Napoleon had France, and as Hegel had prescribed, with every house numbered so that bureaucratic government could pass its science to and collect sustenance from each. The states became the purveyors of education and sources of authority. They fostered the myth that people within their borders formed distinct races with different geniuses and destinies. All partook of Charles Darwin's ideology that life is an evolutionary struggle in which the fittest survive.

    Angelo M. Codevilla

  • Nationalism Quote #11

    Al escribir historia me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama historia patria es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

    Octavio Paz

  • Nationalism Quote #12

    All around the world, tourist boards advertise trips to Britain with images of the great castles and cathedrals that occupy the commanding heights of our landscape. They seem timeless and typically English. It is rarely mentioned that they are predominately French - proud monuments to the invasion that signals the end of England's 'dark age'.

    Robert Winder

  • Nationalism Quote #13

    All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side . . . The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them

    George Orwell

  • Nationalism Quote #14

    All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

    Michael Billig

  • Nationalism Quote #15

    And I thought, y’know, I mean…this is crazy. I mean, the only thing that determines what country you belong to is where you happened to be born? What is a country, anyway? It’s not, y’know, “purple mountain’s majesty” or “fruited plains,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I’m the child of immigrants. My father’s lived and worked in this country for the past three decades. And he’s somehow more or less American than some redneck who uses Osama bin Laden for toilet paper? How the hell do you measure something like that?

    Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

  • Nationalism Quote #16

    Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves, while simultaneously avoiding the charge of being too 'Western.' It was very noticeable among the Palestinians that the most demonstrably 'extreme' nationalists—and Marxists—were often from Christian backgrounds. George Habash and Nayef Hawatmeh used to be celebrated examples of this phenomenon, long before anyone had heard of the cadres of Hamas, or Islamic Jihad. There was an element of overcompensation involved, or so I came to suspect.

    Christopher Hitchens

  • Nationalism Quote #17

    As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration of tragedy. Just as God is provoked by those who tithe simply because they feel that they must tithe, I am provoked by those who commemorate simply because they feel that they must commemorate.

    Criss Jami

  • Nationalism Quote #18

    As we drew nearer I saw a cathedral like a crown on the head of a city. In its white walls every window glinted in the sun. Lincoln! Of such places is England made. -No Moon Tonight

    Don Charlwood

  • Nationalism Quote #19

    At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.

    Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?

    Arundhati Roy

  • Nationalism Quote #20

    Because each nation has its own history of thieving and lies and broken faith, therefore there can only flourish international suspicion and jealousy, and international moral shame becomes anæmic to a degree of ludicrousness. The nation's bagpipe of righteous indignation has so often changed its tune according to the variation of time and to the altered groupings of the alliances of diplomacy, that it can be enjoyed with amusement as the variety performance of the political music hall.

    Rabindranath Tagore

  • Nationalism Quote #21

    Because you have no memory for things that happened ten or twenty years ago, you're still mouthing the same nonsense as two thousand years ago. Worse, you cling with might and main to such absurdities as 'race,' 'class,' 'nation,' and the obligation to observe a religion and repress your love.

    Wilhelm Reich

  • Nationalism Quote #22

    Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

    Bob Dylan

  • Nationalism Quote #23

    bukankah tidak ada yang lebih suci bagi seorang pemuda daripada membela kepentingan bangsanya?

    Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  • Nationalism Quote #24

    But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...

    JeanJacques Rousseau

  • Nationalism Quote #25

    But let’s not forget the Jew. Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled anti-Semite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn’t 't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti-Semite.

    Malcolm X

  • Nationalism Quote #26

    But now, where the spirit of the Western nationalism prevails, the whole people is being taught from boyhood to foster hatreds and ambitions by all kinds of means—by the manufacture of half-truths and untruths in history, by persistent misrepresentation of other races and the culture of unfavourable sentiments towards them, by setting up memorials of events, very often false, which for the sake of humanity should be speedily forgotten, thus continually brewing evil menace towards neighbours and nations other than their own. This is poisoning the very fountainhead of humanity. It is discrediting the ideals, which were born of the lives of men who were our greatest and best. It is holding up gigantic selfishness as the one universal religion for all nations of the world.

    Rabindranath Tagore

  • Nationalism Quote #27

    But what I would like to know, says Albert, is whether there would not have
    been a war if the Kaiser had said No.

    I'm sure there would, I interject, he was against it from the ?rst.

    Well, if not him alone, then perhaps if twenty or thirty people in the world had
    said No.

    That's probable, I agree, but they damned well said Yes.

    It's queer, when one thinks about it, goes on Kropp, we are here to protect
    our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who's in the right?

    Perhaps both, say I without believing it.

    Yes, well now, pursues Albert, and I see that he means to drive me into a
    corner, but our professors and parsons and newspapers say that we are the only
    ones that are right, and let's hope so;--but the French professors and parsons and newspapers say that the right is on their side, now what about that?

    That I don't know, I say, but whichever way it is there's war all the same and every month more countries coming in.

    Tjaden reappears. He is still quite excited and again joins the conversation, wondering just how a war gets started.

    Mostly by one country badly offending another, answers Albert with a slight
    air of superiority.

    Then Tjaden pretends to be obtuse. A country? I don't follow. A mountain in
    Germany cannot offend a mountain in France. Or a river, or a wood, or a ?eld of wheat.

    Are you really as stupid as that, or are you just pulling my leg? growls Kropp, I don't mean that at all. One people offends the other--

    Then I haven't any business here at all, replies Tjaden, I don't feel myself offended.

    Well, let me tell you, says Albert sourly, it doesn't apply to tramps like you.

    Then I can be going home right away, retorts Tjaden, and we all laugh, Ach,
    man! he means the people as a whole, the State-- exclaims Mller.

    State, State--Tjaden snaps his ?ngers contemptuously, Gendarmes, police,
    taxes, that's your State;--if that's what you are talking about, no, thank you.

    That's right, says Kat, you've said something for once, Tjaden. State and
    home-country, there's a big difference.
    But they go together, insists Kropp, without the State there wouldn't be any
    home-country.

    True, but just you consider, almost all of us are simple folk. And in France,
    too, the majority of men are labourers, workmen, or poor clerks. Now just why
    would a French blacksmith or a French shoemaker want to attack us? No, it is
    merely the rulers. I had never seen a Frenchman before I came here, and it will be just the same with the majority of Frenchmen as regards us. They weren't asked about it any more than we were.

    Then what exactly is the war for? asks Tjaden.

    Kat shrugs his shoulders. There must be some people to whom the war is useful.

    Well, I'm not one of them, grins Tjaden.

    Not you, nor anybody else here.

    Who are they then? persists Tjaden.

    It isn't any use to the Kaiser either. He has everything he can want already.

    I'm not so sure about that, contradicts Kat, he has not had a war up till now. And every full-grown emperor requires at least one war, otherwise he would not become famous. You look in your school books.

    And generals too, adds Detering, they become famous through war.

    Even more famous than emperors, adds Kat.

    There are other people back behind there who pro?t by the war, that's
    certain, growls Detering.

    I think it is more of a kind of fever, says Albert. No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others say the same thing--and yet half the world is in it all the same.

    Erich Maria Remarque

  • Nationalism Quote #28

    C is for colonies
    Rightly we boast
    that of all the great nations
    Great Britain has most!

    Mrs. Ernest Ames

  • Nationalism Quote #29

    Clever lies become matters of self-congratulation. Solemn pledges become a farce—laughable for their very solemnity. The Nation, with all its paraphernalia of power and prosperity, its flags and pious hymns, its blasphemous prayers in the churches, and the literary mock thunders of its patriotic bragging, cannot hide the fact that the Nation is the greatest evil for the Nation, that all its precautions are against it, and any new birth of its fellow in the world is always followed in its mind by the dread of a new peril.

    Rabindranath Tagore

  • Nationalism Quote #30

    Comment l'Histoire pourrait-elle mieux servir la vie qu'en attachant à leur patrie et aux coutumes de leur patrie les races et les peuples moins favorisés, en leur donnant des goûts sédentaires, ce qui les empêche de chercher mieux à l'étranger, de rivaliser dans la lutte pour parvenir à ce mieux? Parfois cela paraît être de l'entêtement et de la déraison qui visse en quelque sorte l'individu à tels compagnons et à tel entourage, à telles habitudes laborieuses, à tels stérile coteau. Mais c'est la déraison la plus salutaire, celle qui profite le plus à la collectivité. Chacun le sait, qui s'est rendu compte des terribles effets de l'esprit d'aventure, de la fièvre d'émigration, quand ils s'emparent de peuplades entières, chacun le sait, qui a vu de près un peuple ayant perdu la fidélité à son passé, abandonné à une chasse fiévreuse de la nouveauté, à une recherche perpétuelle des éléments étrangers. Le sentiment contraire, le plaisir que l'arbre prend à ses racines, le bonheur que l'on éprouve à ne pas se sentir né de l'arbitraire et du hasard, mais sorti d'un passé — héritier, floraison, fruit — , ce qui excuserait et justifierait même l'existence : c'est là ce que l'on appelle aujourd'hui, avec une certaine prédilection, le sens historique.
    Deuxième Considération intempestive. ch. 3

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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