Adolf Lasson Quotes

National pride may be a valuable possession, but when it becomes consciousness of racial superiority it ceases to be an Imperial virtue.

All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind.

Or a White Englishman would rather smash a White Frenchman than a Jew! Crazy!

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.

... bloody and barbarous heathens.

... a fixed obsession on Anglo-Saxon superiority.

Anti-Semite.

Even one Serb in our parliament is too much

The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I have found out the trouble. They are the mixture of all the bad races on earth, and they get worse from west to east, because the eastern ones have had more crosses.

The control of China by Japan … is sharply and bitterly antagonistic to the white man’s civilization. This would be the worst calamity…. The future belongs to the white race; it does not belong to the yellow, not the black, not the olive-colored. It belongs to the blond man …

I would like to say that the National Front has never been anti-Semitic. Not only am I not anti-Semitic, but I have explained to my Jewish compatriots that the movement that is most able to protect them is the National Front.

When people today say 'racism,' they mean it's a nationalism they don't like. Racialism used to be a good thing, a looking-out for what was best for one group... Israel comes out of that 19th-century idea of nationalism. Many Arab states also have preferences. It's fundamentally unfair to decide that one is racism and the others aren't.

Unfortunately, generations of people have been told by their political leaders that they are more exceptional human beings than the rest of the world - this sense of privilege is incredibly toxic.

People say they don't want to call a call-centre in India. Why not? They're doing the same job - you just don't like Indians.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

America is a white man's country.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But most of them are quite unable to see that the national pride of a Great Power is essentially as unjustifiable as that of a little Balkan country.

A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen or not. I don’t want any of them ...

Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization.