Sun Yat-sen Quotes

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.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

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

We prefer the well-being of our country over the well-being of an individual or group.

A nations loses its soul and spirit if it cannot act to protect its most basic interests and values.

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

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

I'm a nationalist and populist.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

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

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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

No one has the right to detract the attention of the nation from the defence of the country.

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

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.