Peter Brimelow Quotes

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Every nation has a home. The sentiment of nationality cannot gather simply round an idea or a memory or a program or about some function or status, such as a priesthood or an aristocracy or a Legion of Janissaries.

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

I talk about being Australian a lot.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.