National Pride

Believe it or not,

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride. Frank Zappa

We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn’t prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

National pride is the

National pride is the culmination of a lifetime public relations campaign of psychological mind-control techniques. Bryant H. McGill

Our neighbors shake their

Our neighbors shake their heads And take their valuables inside While my countrymen piss in the fountains To express their national pride. Billy Bragg

Americans and Englishmen, when

Americans and Englishmen, when they become acquainted with the Balkans, feel an astonished contempt when they study the mutual enmities of Bulgarians and Serbs, of Hungarians and Rumanians. It is evident to them that these enmities are absurd and that the belief of each little nation in its own superiority has no objective basis. But … Read more

Race? It is a

Race? It is a feeling, not a reality. Ninety-five per cent, at least. Nothing will ever make me believe that biologically pure races can be shown to exist today…. National pride has no need of the delirium of race. Benito Mussolini

Brazilians need to work

Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It’s a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it’s Brazilian, it can’t be good. Amy Irving

I guess those of

I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you’re not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars. Alan Shepard

We live in a

We live in a highly competitive world – and we Indians have to struggle to catch up. So modesty is necessary, even if there is also a need for a certain amount of national pride. When it comes down to it, we have managed our country’s economy poorly for long enough. There is really no … Read more

The religion of England

The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador’s chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman. Ralph Waldo Emerson