509 Quotes About Nationalism

Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and state on one hand, between the nationals of an atomized society on the other. Native citizens of a nation-state frequently looked down upon naturalized citizens, those who had received their rights by law and not by birth, from the state and not from the nation....

Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed.That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore.

A nation is alive only when it grows, constantly discarding its outdated traditions, habits, rituals and assumptions.

Nationality lost, nothing lost - religion lost, nothing lost - traditions lost, nothing lost - humanity lost, everything lost.

One religion or another--whatever gets it ready, in position. One fatherland or another--whatever helps it get a running start. Justice also works well at the outset until hate gets its own momentum going. Hatred. Hatred.

Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions.

Al escribir "historia" me refiero a la general o universal. No hay otra: lo que se llama "historia patria" es espejo del hombre -y entonces es también universal- o es una anécdota de sobremesa.

Our history is stagnating. We can not agree upon national heroes.

Lincoln is properly remembered as a champion of democracy, but there was a good bit of Otto von Bismarck in him as well.