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Chauvinism   /ʃˈoʊvənˌɪzəm/   Listen
Chauvinism

noun
1.
Fanatical patriotism.  Synonyms: jingoism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism.
2.
Activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women.  Synonyms: antifeminism, male chauvinism.



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"Chauvinism" Quotes from Famous Books



... There is nothing of chauvinism in the statement that, so far as the submarine is concerned, our navy has played a most helpful part in diminishing its ravages, that our fighting ships have aided very materially in the marked reduction in sinkings of merchantmen as compared to the number destroyed in the corresponding period before ...
— Our Navy in the War • Lawrence Perry

... of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc., etc. All these things have their own spirit, and every such spirit is partly or wholly included in the spirit of the Church, i.e. of modern Christianity. None of the Christian Churches of our time makes an exception ...
— The Agony of the Church (1917) • Nikolaj Velimirovic

... Nature and animals (excepting the cosmic forces and microbes) are nowadays conquered by the human brain, and wars are seldom waged except between great empires, a fact which will sooner or later reduce them to absurdity. For this reason the morality of the god of war and of patriotic chauvinism has had his day and loses more and more his reason for existence. Modern ethics has already become a social and international human ethics, and will become ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel

... society. Talk there was about it all enough to lead one to think "No smoke without fire." Members of the Tsrna Ruka joined the police force, and so secured their plans against police interference. By means of a paper called Premont they preach violent chauvinism, and advocated savage methods. Damian Popovitch, the head assassin, held an important post. Efforts on the part of politicians, who disapproved of its methods, to break up the society failed. Unexplained deaths took place. The Black ...
— Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle • Durham M. Edith

... world is there so much declamation about Chauvinism as in Germany, and nowhere is so little of it to be found. We hesitate to express even the most natural demands that a nation can make for itself.—H. ...
— Gems (?) of German Thought • Various



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