Franz Grillparzer Quotes

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

The bitter and agonizing fruit from the tree of nationality…

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

I am neither German or French but European.

In Europe … nationalism is nothing more than a mania.

Nationalism made us feel as if we were a unique, chosen people. That's what led us down the path of aggression.

There is less and less of France abroad, and more that is foreign in France.

Nationalism is spiritual and all-embracing, in the sense that it opens its arms to and spreads its wings over all those who have shared with the Arabs their history and have lived in the environment of their language and culture for generations, so that they have become Arab in thought and feeling. There is no fear that nationalism will clash with religion, for, like religion, it flows from the heart and issues from the will of God; they walk arm in arm, supporting each other, especially when religion represents the genius of the nationality and is in harmony with its nature.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

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.

The Slav nation is spread so far. The map arouses more patriots than a whole literature could do.

We are a separate nation by all the tests-race, language, religion, culture determining nationality. The only link connecting us with the other people of the State being the bond of common ruler. If the Indian National Congress could persuade itself to recognize: the Muslims of India as a separate nation although they had so much in common with the other elements of the Indian population, the Government of India should have no hesitation in recognition what is patent and Scout revertible fact in our case.

The "State" was substituted for humanity; cosmopolitan gave way to nationalism.

National glory is a deceiving seducer. When it reaches a certain height, it clasps the head with an iron band. The enclosed sees nothing in the mist but his own picture; he is susceptible to no foreign impressions.

A nation is not a linguistic unit. The English-speaking peoples, whether under the Union Jack or not, are, with one exception, not English; neither are the German-speaking Swiss and Austrians German, nor the French-speaking Swiss and Belgians and Canadians French.

When I was younger, I used to hate Germany. I hated the country, the people, the language, the culture, everything! But over the years I've grown to really appreciate the German people.

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

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.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

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

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.