{"id":1919,"date":"2016-05-13T10:15:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2016-05-13T10:15:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:15:10","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Nationalities_and_Nationalism_42_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=1919","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Nationalities and Nationalism (42 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity — their links with their dead and the unborn.<\/div>\n
John Berger<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All the nationalists are wasms — except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.<\/div>\n
John Lukacs<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.<\/div>\n
Robert Frost<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.<\/div>\n
Austin O'Malley<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.<\/div>\n
Irish Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.<\/div>\n
Robert Burton<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.<\/div>\n
E. J. Hobsbawm<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!<\/div>\n
Voltaire<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.<\/div>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.<\/div>\n
W. Somerset Maugham<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.<\/div>\n
Dean William R. Inge<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.<\/div>\n
Bob Geldof<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.<\/div>\n
Albert Camus<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.<\/div>\n
Fyodor Dostoevski<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.<\/div>\n
Pope John XXIII<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.<\/div>\n
Samuel Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.<\/div>\n
George Orwell<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.<\/div>\n
Eric Hoffer<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.<\/div>\n
Colonel Muhammar Qaddafi<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, ''Thus far shalt thou go and no further.''<\/div>\n
Charles Stewart Parnell<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 1 to 20 of 42<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tNext ><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLast<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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