509 Quotes About Nationalism

It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism.

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

One’s love for his country is a very sacred emotion that is intertwined with their sense of moral obligation and is an essential part of one’s identity.

Most people who hold that childish kind of love for their country have never left it.

Nationalism among nations is like racism among races.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

Jesus was trying to present value of a life of vulnerability in which one would have practical and needed experience of the same. It would be a life without baggage, so one would learn to accept others and their culture instead of always carrying along our own country's assumptions and calling them the Gospel.

The nationalist regrets the change; an ill-founded belief in the merits of purity blinds him to the virtues of the foreign and the hybrid.