All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.
Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
Hate crimes have increased since the election of Donald Trump. So I'm not surprised. I'm hopeful, very vigilant. We're seeing the same thing as what happened in 1933, when a politician stokes fears and grievances to rally them for a nationalist cause. But nationalism to the exclusion of other people is not nationalism, that's xenophobia.
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the nationalism of the Palestinian people. I believe there is no way around this: We have to have a solution based on two national states, which will hopefully live and grow together and establish a relationship between them in something like a European Union.
Europe is as fearful of Islam today as she has been in the past. She now knows that the strength of Islam (which in the past expressed that of the Arabs) has been reborn and has appeared in a new form: Arab nationalism.
Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.
Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.
Nationalism is cured by traveling.
Nationalism and patriotism are two sides of the same coin, and the most nationalistic patriotic country in the last 300 years was Germany during the Third Reich.
If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.
What generates war is the economic philosophy of nationalism: embargoes, trade and foreign exchange controls, monetary devaluation, etc. The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war.
Nationalism is both a vital medicine and a dangerous drug
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.
I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.
