509 Quotes About Nationalism

Meskipun pincang, Indonesia larinya kencang. Karena kepincangannya, lari Indonesia jadi lucu, walau kadang kala juga membuat haru.

National identity is, of course, historically constructed; but it is nevertheless symbolized by a flag and an anthem, materialized by administrative acts and by material boundaries, the object of emotional projections that make people speak, make them act and even, sometimes, fight.

Istoria aceasta cu români altfel decât ceilalți și supuși persecuţiei celorlalţi, paradoxală combinație de superioritate iluzorie cu un obsedant complex de inferioritate, ilustrează o stare de spirit nepotrivită vremurilor de azi. Actualizarea insistentă a unui trecut glorificat și abandonarea în mrejele lui perpetuează confruntarea în raport cu ceilalți și imobilismul în raport cu noi înșine.

When you assume your nation needs no improvement, when you assume that your nation is at its absolute best, you are inadvertently burying your nation alive, for a nation that assumes self-proclaimed supremacy is the only inferior nation on earth.

A nation that assumes self-proclaimed supremacy is the only inferior nation on earth.

Modi wave is not perennial

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Nationalism plays on my need to label and compare so that I feel superior to other people and promotes an "us verses them" mentality.

And he who has no people has no God. You may be sure that all who cease to understand their own people and lose their connection with them at once lose to the same extent the faith of their fathers, and become atheistic or indifferent.