Quotes about Nationalism
I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.
— Samuel Johnson
You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.
— Carl Sagan
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
— John F. Kennedy
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
— Winston Churchill
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
The danger is that we can begin to read the Bible through the eyes of America rather than read America through the eyes of the Bible. We just want Jesus to be a good American.
— Shane Claiborne
The American flag has smothered the glory of the cross. Many people can't see the beauty of the cross because everything the American flag represents to them is in the way.
— Shane Claiborne
It is a dangerous day when we can take the cross out of the church more easily than the flag. No wonder it is hard for seekers to find God nowadays.
— Shane Claiborne
Many Americans genuinely fear that God is preparing to remove his hand of protection and blessing from our country, or perhaps already has.
— Joel Rosenberg
We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.
— Billy Graham
I belong to the Russian language. As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives.
— Joseph Brodsky