Jingoism Quotes

• Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Religious, Racism

  "Understanding Power". Book by Noam Chomsky, 2002.

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• When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

  Noam Chomsky

  Sports, Football, Attitude

  "Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media". Documentary, Biography, War, www.imdb.com. 1992.

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• The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Grief, Honor

  "On War". www.nybooks.com. December 16, 2004.

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• Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

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• Let us, then, draw together in the name, not of jingoism, but of justice

  Margaret Thatcher

  Names, Justice, Together

  Margaret Thatcher (1987). “In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986”

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• I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism? The 'dazzling royals' have, quite naturally, hi-jacked the Olympics for their own empirical needs, and no oppositional voice is allowed in the free press.

  Steven Morrissey

  Voice, Events, Watches

  "Olympics 2012: Morrissey Trashes London Games, British 'Jingoism'" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 6, 2012.

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• My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Country, Mean, Done

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I think for a long time I confused jingoism with patriotism. And that is a mistake.

  Claire Danes

  New York, Growing Up, Confused

  Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.

  David Mamet

  Avant Garde, Nonsense, Refuge

  David Mamet (2013). “Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama”, p.61, Vintage

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• When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Daughter, Country, Growing Up

  "Clinton Family Takes On Iowa". www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death, it becomes jingoism. People are drinking, dancing in the street, chanting USA like they’re at the World Cup, like they won it… It’s sick that we turned it into a sporting event.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Drinking, Jumping

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• At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away so that jingoism and heroics are no longer required.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Enough, Wwii

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.

  Peter Berg

  War, Want, Helping

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• My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

  Katha Pollitt

  Daughter, Block, War

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

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