Rod Laver Quotes

You'd got a baseball game, or a football game, basketball game, "USA! USA! USA!" Hey, calm down! Got a little German on it, don't you think?

There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, which is attachment to a way of life, and nationalism, which is the insistence that your way of life deserves to rule over other ways of life.

I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

Nationalism made us feel as if we were a unique, chosen people. That's what led us down the path of aggression.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

The bitter and agonizing fruit from the tree of nationality…

The question whether nationalism, patriotism, the love of the homeland, is beneficial either to the individual or to the human race as a whole is open to discussion. It might be a much better world if this instinct were eradicated. On the other hand, it might be worse. The fact is that the instinct exists, and that, far from losing its grip on us, on all of us, it is becoming constantly more intense, more exacting, more all-embracing…. Nationalism as we know it may pass, but for the moment it is more powerful than any other idea or even than any religion.

I think it's just in human nature: if you've got two guys fighting, and you don't really know them, you're going to root for the guy who comes from your country.

I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.

Nationalism … may be regarded as the greatest obstacle to mutual understanding between peoples.

The "State" was substituted for humanity; cosmopolitan gave way to nationalism.

Tribalism is the most powerful force in the world.

If we are not anti-China, are we still human?

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else.’

America must be kept American

Local Nationalism

Nationalism has nothing to do with democratic values: Authoritarians can be nationalists; indeed, most are.

President Trump proclaimed 'America First' from the inauguration stage. As an American Jew and daughter of immigrants, that slogan makes me shiver.

In the World Wars, people were perfectly able to shoot other people just because they belonged to the wrong country, without ever asking what their opinions were. Faith too is like that.

I've always been the outsider. I've always been regarded as some extraordinarily dangerous figure. I'm none of those things! I'm just a middle-class boy from Kent who likes cricket and who happened to have a strong view about a supernational government from Brussels.

Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?

We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.