Nationalism quotes Best Collection

• I'm the leader that can be the rallying point for the liberal movement that we need to create to take on the forces of nationalism and populism, the likes of Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson.

  Jo Swinson

  Topics: Nationalism Need Leader Point
• The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.

  Noam Chomsky

  Topics: People Nationalism Half Resistance
• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  Lance Henriksen

  Topics: Me Like Nationalism Little
• On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Topics: Limits Name More Nationalism
• Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

  Elliott Abrams

  Topics: Support Nation Solidarity Nationalism
• I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.

  Colm Toibin

  Topics: Never Violence Nationalism Open
• I came to my Marxist view as a result of having struggled as a nationalist and found certain dead ends theoretically and ideologically, as far as nationalism was concerned, and had to reach out for a communist ideology.

  Amiri Baraka

  Topics: Result View Dead Nationalism
• All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Topics: Nationalism Kind Narcissism
• Palestinian ideology has become a lethal cocktail of radical nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.

  Jack Schwartz

  Topics: Nationalism Become Ideology Radical
• If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.

  Frans Timmermans

  Topics: Poor Nationalism Us Weak
• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  Irving Babbitt

  Topics: Unity Push Nationalism Limit
• Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.

  Arthur Keith

  Topics: Nationalism Opposite Made Been
• In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Topics: World Vision Place Nationalism
• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Topics: Late Nationalism First Reaction
• Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

  James A. Forbes

  Topics: Nationalism About Narrow
• I'm supportive of practical nationalism, like the kind we need in Canada to avoid being absorbed into a much larger country. The kind of nationalism I despise as destructive and infantile is really just tribalism writ large.

  Steven Heighton

  Topics: Country Like Nationalism Need
• Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking.

  Andre Aciman

  Topics: Thinking Rise More Nationalism
• Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.

  Steve Bannon

  Topics: Country American Nationalism Economic
• There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Topics: Nationalism Civic Other Countries
• The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

  Margaret Atwood

  Topics: Boring Nationalism Really Oppressed
• I feel nationalism is the basic essence of my statements or revolts.

  Suresh Gopi

  Topics: Feel Nationalism Essence I Feel
• Palestinian violence is not a response to the capture of the West Bank and Gaza. Palestinian nationalism's roots are not so shallow.

  Ehud Olmert

  Topics: Roots Violence Nationalism Response
• When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.

  Elif Safak

  Topics: Go Nationalism Sexism Slide
• Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.

  Richard N. Haass

  Topics: Political Difficult Nationalism Used
• For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isn’t merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.

  Layla Moran

  Topics: Nostalgia Spirit Nationalism Brexit
• In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet.

  Tim Minchin

  Topics: World Fantasy Nationalism Poison
• I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

  Arthur Henderson

  Topics: World Believe Survive Nationalism
• Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.

  Richard Attias

  Topics: Pride Place Nationalism Create
• My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Topics: Generation Parents Nationalism High
• The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

  Tariq Ali

  Topics: Weakness Nationalism Own Identity