Bryant H. McGill Quotes

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

All nations teach their children to be "patriotic", and abuse the other nations for fostering nationalism.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

Nationalism usually conquers in the name of a putative folk culture.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

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

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

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.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

People aren't really afraid of my views. They are just afraid of the word 'nationalism.'

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.

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

I think English film is very embarrassed by patriotism, generally.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.