Dorothea Dix 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.

The Royal family to me are not England, and they are not the flag.

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble

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.

Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity

… the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies

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.

What the masses want are monuments.

Your government means to be paternal—it is only weak…. Love France, love my glory—that is the only manner in which a King of Holland can do service.

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

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

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.

I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

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

America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a flag on their porch, and they do have a desire to localize everything and celebrate things locally.

If a nation allows its literary culture to die, it's a sign that it doesn't fundamentally care.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

Standing up for national anthem doesn't make you an Indian. Posting flags on social networks doesn't make you an Indian.

It's funny - Americans are the colonials who ran away from the royals, and yet we're fascinated by them.

We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.

Every country has things to be proud of and to celebrate.

'The Star-Spangled Banner' should've never been made into our national anthem. That President Woodrow Wilson, widely thought to be one of the most bigoted presidents ever elected, chose it as our national anthem, is painfully telling as well.