National identity Quote by C.J. Sansom

“Patriotism is wanting what is best for your country. Nationalism is thinking your country is best, no matter what it does.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“One of the most important causes of division, war and violence in the world is nationalist sentiment. NATIONALISM is simply another form of EXTREMISM.”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus that helps to unify a nation. Those…

— Dick Morris

“Yet of course nationalism is always “imagined”; identity is what you think you are.”

— Graham E. Fuller

“Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism.”

— George Orwell

“The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.”

— Bryant McGill

“If there was one ideological rationale that had broad appeal, it was nationalism, which for many boiled down to a fervent desire to be…

— Mark Bowden

“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Nationalism is the belief that no matter what one’s country does—whether racist, homophobic, sexist, xenophobic, or the like—it must be supported and accepted entirely.…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Nationalism is the uncritical celebration of one’s nation regardless of its moral or political virtue. It is summarized in the saying, “My country right…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“Nationalism is a form of cultural self-centeredness, and as a collective thought-form, can only exist because the dominant in-group is itself comprised of self-centered…

— Bryant McGill

“Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people…

— A.C. Grayling