509 Quotes About Nationalism

Ethnic-based politics is being used to exhort people, to serve own ends - this is anathema to concept of nationalism.

There is no law by which to determine the superiority of nations; hence the vanity of the claim, and the idleness of disputes about it.

C" is for colonies Rightly we boastthat of all the great nationsGreat Britain has most!

Struggle for justice invariably alters the base culture. So did the long Tamil Eelam struggle. Its crystallization was the Vanni society during the last years of LTTE. My four years experience in Vanni also gave me a unique opportunity to see firsthand the devastating truth about the ways of the powerful on this globe - about which I and many other Tamils have puzzled over for many years. For us Tamils of Tamil Eelam it is a new source of power through knowing. It is also our proud history.

The passion for war is so intense that there is no undertaking so mad, or so injurious to the welfare of the State, that a man does not consider himself honored in defending it, at the risk of his life.

(on his thought on excessive nationalism) ...the country was no doubt very important, but that there was no need at all to act the clown by talking about it all the time, as if one were completely possessed by it.

It is you who are old fashioned with your machine-guns and your gas and your talk of country.

Saying no to flag worship dethrones the American Jesus and it exposes our cultural Christianity.

In modern times, nationalism is the most copious and durable source of mass enthusiasm, and that nationalist fervor must be tapped if the drastic changes projected and initiated by revolutionary enthusiasm are to be consummated.