Yorgos Lanthimos Quotes

I wanted to make America proud.

I love America, but I don't like it.

Just because I believe in the identity and integrity of my country doesn't make a xenophobe or a nationalist.

I love my country more than anything else.

Who is not patriotic cannot be considered Portuguese.

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

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.

I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

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

I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

I have never been afraid of making patriots; but I disdain and despise all their efforts.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I didn't want to represent any negative side of the country where I was born and raised.