Nationalism Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Nationalism.
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“Nationalist historiography”
“Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.”
“Nationalism . . . invents nations where they do not exist.”
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
“Nationalism does not provide a single way of talking about the world.”
“I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community.”
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“Nationalism seeks legitimacy from the past and history therefore becomes a sensitive subject.”
“The apparent universal ideological domination of nationalism today is a sort of optical illusion.”
“Patriotism always exists in the greatest degree in rude nations, and in an early period of society.”
“A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.”
“Nationalism is like cheap alcohol: First, it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, and then it kills you.”
“Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.”
“If you don’t offer people a positive, uplifting nationalism, they will grab the nasty one. History and recent events have shown us that.”
“If the great questions of the beginning of this century were mainly political, those which will convulse the world at its close will be social.”
“The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately destroyed.”
“[N]ationalism also is the engine that generates the power which permits countries to be benevolent if they are so inclined. Not all countries are so inclined.”
“Arbeiter horch, sie ziehn ins Feld,
Und schreien für Nation und Rasse.
Das ist der Krieg der Herrscher der Welt
Gegen die Arbeiterklasse.”
“Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality....”