Nationalistic Fervor Quotes

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. Patriotism is its cult.

Radical Islam and US exceptionalism are in bed with each other. They're like lovers, methinks.

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

Patriotism, often a thinly veiled form of collective self-worship, celebrates our goodness, our ideals, our mercy and bemoans the perfidiousness of those who hate us.

We have a secret weapon...it is called Nationalism

Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic / patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.

Revenge for a terror attack is ideal for Putin's model. His propaganda machine will be filled with scenes of crash victims if [Vladimir] Putin sees the need for a larger war to stoke his domestic support again as the Russian economy teeters.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Patriotism is the vital condition of national permanence.

It is always useful to face an enemy who is prepared to die for his country," he read. "This means that both you and he have exactly the same aim in mind.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

In 1793 such a force as no one had any conception of made its appearance. War had again suddenly become an affair of the people, and that of a people numbering thirty millions, every one of whom regarded himself as a citizen of the State... By this participation of the people in the war... a whole Nation with its natural weight came into the scale.

Extreme nationalism objectifies and dehumanizes those from other countries.

...Surely, we must renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

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

History is the most dangerous product which the chemistry of the mind has concocted. Its properties are well known. It produces dreams and drunkenness. It fills people with false memories, exaggerates their reactions, exacerbates old grievances, torments them in their repose, and encourages either a delirium of grandeur or a delusion of persecution. It makes whole nations bitter, arrogant, insufferable and vainglorious.

Britain needs a real push. It needs nationalism. The sort of spirit that comes during a war. It needs people really to want to see the UK sitting again, maybe not as a colonial power, but as an economic power.

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

Nationalism as we know it, is the result of a form of state-sponsored branding.

By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful.