Nationalism Quotes

• In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Political
  • Given
  • Boundaries

• All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

  

  John Lukacs
  • Age
  • Powerful
  • Century

• Nationalism can only ever be a crucial political agenda against oppression. All longing to the contrary, it cannot provide the absolute guarantee of identity.

  

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
  • Identity
  • Oppression
  • Nationalism

• 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.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Nationalism
  • Superstitions
  • Pile

• Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mankind
  • Nationalism
  • Measels

• Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Doe
  • Nationalism
  • Tribalism

• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Selfishness
  • Maladjustment

• No more arresting emblems of the modern culture of nationalism exist than cenotaphs and tombs of Unknown Soldiers.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Nationalism
  • Emblems
  • Unknown Soldier

• You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Future
  • Slavery
  • Burden

• We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.

  

  William Golding
  • Pride
  • Lord
  • Savages

• Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Destructive
  • Nationalism
  • Exclusive

• I try to look at it like an angry optimist. In other words, I'm not happy with the state of affairs that we have. The rise of nationalism under the guise of patriotism is so effed up, and underneath this banner of patriotism is the worst of nationalist rhetoric: racism, xenophobia, sexism, pitting communities against each other, implicitly inciting race wars and stuff like that. So that's the angry part of it, but I'm incredibly optimistic about the potential to redefine what it means to be a patriotic American .

  

  Hasan Minhaj
  • Patriotism
  • Optimist
  • Patriotic American

• Part of the coalition is intellectuals who have an idea of racial nationalism, which is very popular in right-wing populist movements in Europe. The alt-right believes in racially separate nation-states.

  

  Chip Berlet
  • Nationalism
  • Populist

• Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Known
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism

• What I am proposing is that Nationalism has to be understood, by aligning it not with self-consciously held political ideologies, but with large cultural systems that preceded it, out of which — as well as against which — it came into being.

  

  Benedict Anderson
  • Nationalism
  • Ideologies
  • Cultural Systems

• Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Spirit
  • Race
  • Nationalism

• The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • English
  • Pride
  • Vanity

• Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

  

  Storm Jameson
  • World
  • Nationalism
  • Provinces

• Politically speaking, tribal nationalism [patriotism] always insists that its own people are surrounded by 'a world of enemies' - 'one against all' - and that a fundamental difference exists between this people and all others. It claims its people to be unique, individual, incompatible with all others, and denies theoretically the very possibility of a common mankind long before it is used to destroy the humanity of man.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Enemies

• I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.

  

  William Gibson
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Nationalism

• Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

  

  Ernest Gellner
  • Consciousness
  • Nationalism
  • Awakening

• Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

  

  Lord Robertson
  • Dead
  • Stone
  • Nationalism

• There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Elsewhere

• My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Nation
  • Nationalism
  • Devised

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