Motivational Quotes

Nationalities and nationalism

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

- Burton, Robert

Nationalities and nationalism Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Nationalities and nationalism

The Britons are quite separated from all the world.

Virgil

Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one.

Pope John XXIII

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

Burton, Robert

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

O'Malley, Austin

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Hobsbawm, E. J.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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The French work to live, but the Swiss live to work.

Proverb, French

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

Meir, Golda

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

Voltaire

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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.

Mazzini, Giuseppe

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

Proverb

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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

John Paul II

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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.

Lukacs, John

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Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.

Geldof, Bob

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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.

Parnell, Charles Stewart

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

Churchill, Winston

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The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it.

Agate, James

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The English have a heavy hearted way of amusing themselves.

Sully

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The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Hoffer, Eric

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Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Qaddafi, Colonel Muhammar

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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.

Berger, John

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Bulls get rich, bears get rich, but pigs get slaughtered An Irishman is never at his best except when fighting.

Proverb, Irish

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

Camus, Albert

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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Orwell, George

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

Goldman, Albert

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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.

Frost, Robert

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Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill and calling for larger spurs and brighter beaks. I fear that nationalism is one of England's many spurious gifts to the world.

Aldington, Richard