Justin Trudeau Quotes

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

When Joan D' Arc was asked by her judges why as a Christian she did not love the British, she answered that she did love them, but she loved British in their country. In the same way, we do not hate the Turks, we love them, but in their country.

I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are.

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 don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

I am glad to see one real American here

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

In wartime the herd instinct rise …

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else.’

Identities reside in relations with others: you-me and us-them, and identities center on boundaries separating us from them.

The necessity of defining the enemy also leads to the necessity of defining who we are.

In other countries, being from somewhere else is celebrated. But not in America.

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

All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined.

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name.

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