Nationalities And Nationalism Quotes – Set 1 – 2017

#1

We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs; we have no place to go.

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#2

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.

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#3

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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#4

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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#5

All the nationalists are wasms — except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

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#6

Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

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#7

The Jews have always been students, and their greatest study is themselves.

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#8

Without country you have neither name, token, voice, nor rights, no admission as brothers into the fellowship of the Peoples. You are the bastards of Humanity. Soldiers without a banner, Israelites among the nations, you will find neither faith nor protection; none will be sureties for you. Do not beguile yourselves with the hope of emancipation from unjust social conditions if you do not first conquer a Country for yourselves.

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#9

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.

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#10

England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.

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#11

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

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#12

The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

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#13

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

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#14

The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive.

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#15

The Irish ignore anything they can’t drink or punch.

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#16

An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.

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#17

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.

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#18

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

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#19

I find that the Americans have no passions; they have appetites.

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#20

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

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#21

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

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#22

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

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#23

How I like the boldness of the English, how I like the people who say what they think!