Muammar Qaddafi Quotes

It is high time that we awaken from the romantic self-renunciation which made us admire all sorts of other nationalities while we ourselves languished in shameful bondage, trampled on by all the world; it is high time that we awaken to a healthy national egoism which, to put it frankly, places the welfare and honour of the fatherland above everything else.

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

This thing called nationalism is a treasure that a country uses to try to develop and a nationality uses to try to survive. China has lost this treasure.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

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

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

The feeling of patriotism --- It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God ... or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience

A Pole must accept everything Polish, both good and bad,..

Patriotism is the trump card of a scoundrel.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

Jolt a country’s pride and even the reformers will support the nation

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

We are very clear that we will go to any lengths for the sake of protecting our national pride.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.

I believe in any country, matters that relate to its territory would, of course, provoke strong sentiments amongst the people of that country.

America's state religion, is patriotism, a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that 'treason' is morally worse than murder or rape.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

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

National patriotism, in other words, inevitably springs from the instinct to defend and preserve our own homes.