Nationalistic Pride Quotes

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

'Tis pride that pulls the country down.

I do believe that America's deepest political sickness is that it is a self-righteous nation.

A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

China is in its own category - too big to ignore, too repressive to embrace, difficult to influence, and very, very proud.

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

There are those who wrap themselves in flags and blow the tinny trumpet of patriotism as a means of fooling the people.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.