509 Quotes About Nationalism

although we have broken free from the shackles of gravity, we are still imprisoned in our own minds, confined by our suspicion of the ‘other’, and thus our primal competition for resources

Nationalism is just another religion.

No historian should be a nationalist. Nationalism consequently leads to the delusion and mystification of the historical facts, consciously or unconsciously, in favour of national interests, which in turn makes history basically a subjective vision system.

Не можу знати, що таке фашизм і що таке у практиці комунізм? Тому я поки що ні за тих, ні за других. А втім, чому я маю бути за когось? Я – за свій народ. Я знаю свій знедолений народ, і більш мені нікого не треба... Нікого!

Nationalism: a state of mind in which you do not love your own country as much as you hate somebody else’s .

A politician who represents the interests primarily of economic elites must find other means of appealing to the masses. Such alternatives are provided by the politics of nationalism, sectarianism, and identity.

Tribalism is really a form of egoism. It's all about my people, my religion, me, me, me.

Despoiled and exploited like the South, and like it, a poverty-ridden, agrarian, feudal society, Poland has shared with the Old South one bulwark against its immemorial humiliation, and that is pride. Pride and the recollection of vanished glories.

En el día de hoy, cautivo y desarmado el Ejército Rojo, han alcanzado las tropas nacionales sus últimos objetivos militares. La guerra ha terminado.[Parte oficial de guerra del 1 de abril de 1939]