National Pride Quotes

“Die wohlfeilste Art des Stolzes hingegen ist der Nationalstolz. Denn er verrät in dem damit Behafteten den Mangel an individuellen Eigenschaften, auf die er stolz sein könnte, indem er sonst nicht zu dem greifen würde, was er mit so vielen Millionen teilt. Wer bedeutende persönliche Vorzüge besitzt, wird vielmehr die Fehler seiner eigenen Nation, da er sie beständig vor Augen hat, am deutlichsten erkennen. Aber jeder erbärmliche Tropf, der nichts in der Welt hat, darauf er stolz sein könnte, ergreift das letzte Mittel, auf die Nation, der er gerade angehört, stolz zu sein. Hieran erholt er sich und ist nun dankbarlich bereit, alle Fehler und Torheiten, die ihr eigen sind, mit Händen und Füßen zu verteidigen.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit: Parerga und Paralipomena

“When the systems of profit, fame, and national pride degrade bicycle or soccer competitions to a tainted ritual, it becomes a depiction of corruption rather than trust, integrity, and honest endeavor. ( “The dirty bike")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“The cheapest kind of pride, on the other hand, is national pride. For it betrays in those affected by it the lack of individual qualities of which they could be proud, since they would otherwise not grasp at something that they share with so many millions. Rather those who possess significant personal qualities will recognize most clearly the faults of their own nation, since they constantly have them in front of them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down.”
― Joshua Bennett, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

“przecie my Swoje wychwalać musiemy, bo nas zjedzą!”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Trans-Atlantyk

“Jeśli naród prawdziwie dojrzały powinien z umiarem sądzić własne zasługi, to naród prawdziwie żywotny musi nauczyć się je lekceważyć, musi on koniecznie być wyniosły w stosunku do wszystkiego co nie jest dzisiejszą aktualną jego sprawą i jego współczesnym stwarzaniem się...”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Dziennik tom 1 1953-1956

“Abe Fields, in spite of his fever, felt pride in being a realistic American with the highest national income per head of population in the world, and the most comfortable standard of living since the beginning of evolution; the reptiles of the primeval sea could be proud of America, and the ancestor who had first crawled of his native mud, in a desperate effort
to become a man, might now sleep in peace— he had succeeded. His name should be venerated in every American school; he was the real pioneer, the father of free enterprise, of the spirit of initiative, of all those who dared, who risked, of all that had led to the stupendous material progress of the United States.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“National sovereignty is something that is encouraged by leaders and politicians and is easily accepted by the citizens because human beings are essentially tribal. But in reality, it does not actually exist, not in a legal or practical way. The main reason it is encouraged is because people need to accept that they will be required to die for their country during manipulated and staged wars and feel proud about that. The wars are required for depopulation purposes and for the financial gain of the leaders and instigators. And the leaders know very well that national sovereignty can be quickly and easily removed, considering it does not actually exist in the real world.”
― Jack Freestone