Christian Lous Lange Quotes

Without Nationality neither liberty nor equality is possible- and we believe in the holy Fatherland, that is the cradle of nationality, the altar and patrimony of the individuals that compose each people.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

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

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

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

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

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

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

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

The French will only be united under the threat of danger. Nobody can simply bring together a country that has 265 kinds of cheese.

The more globalized the world becomes, the less traumatic it is for nationalists to split from their states.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

I am Turkey. To destroy me is to destroy Turkey.

Nationalism springs, as often as not, from a wounded or outraged sense of human dignity, the desire for recognition.

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.

The spirit of nationalism springs from the deepest of human emotions. It rises from the yearning of men to be free of foreign domination, to govern themselves. It springs from a thousand rills of race, of history, of sacrifice and pride in national achievement.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

History is an instrument of the most genuine patriotic spirit

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.

People are far more willing to fight for their country—for their history, their soil, their common religious identity—than they are for an abstract political body created by fiat [as with the EU].