Sangram Singh Quotes

There's something I will say: In the U.S., people are very patriotic. Their patriotism is obvious. In France, for many years, you had to fight to be patriotic. People are pushing us from loving our own country.

Show me the race or nation without a flag, and I will show you a people without any pride.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

I prefer people to see me as an Ivorian and as a patriot.

It’s a little strange, this obsession with the flag. It’s incomprehensible to someone who comes from a country where the flag has, so to speak, disappeared, where any nostalgia and concern for it is a sign of an attachment to the past…

I'm not afraid to make a patriotic speech. There should be more of them.

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.

Patriotism, love of country, and pride in the flag which symbolizes country may be feelings which the race will at some period outgrow, but at present they are very real and strong, and the man who lacks them is a useless creature, a mere encumbrance to the land.

Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

Patriotism... bought and paid for is not patriotism.

By "nationalism" I mean the habit of identifying oneself with a single nation or other unit, placing it beyond good and evil and recognising no other duty than that of advancing its interests.

I'm extremely patriotic. I'll always be Canadian.

Being English, being born in England, this is our home and we should be supporting our home country.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Never was patriot yet, but was a fool.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

We live in a great country. It's time again to get religion about it.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.