20th century Quote by Cornel West Download Open image “I loathe nationalism. It is a form of tribalism--the idolatry of the 20th century.” — Cornel West ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Century Form Form Tribalism Idolatry Loathe Loathe Nationalism Nationalism Nationalism Form Patriotism Tribalism Tribalism Idolatry
In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I don't believe in nationalism. I think it's a bunch of slogans. It's a bunch of poor attempts at creating pride. My problem with… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. — Rosika Schwimmer Copy Share Image
Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The word nationalism, to most people, has a virtuous whiff; historically, it's been conflated with terms like patriotism and loyalty and solidarity with one's… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There has certainly been ugly, right-wing hatred targeting Barack Obama. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
What is accurately portrayed is the rich humanity not just of Martin Luther King but of the movement, which was a multiracial movement. You… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.' — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“You can't really move forward until you look back. [From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]” — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The challenge artists face today is whether to be an underground, unheard genius, or to dilute their art for the marketplace. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The need of black conservatives to gain the respect of their white peers deeply shapes certain elements of their conservatism. In this regard, they… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I don't draw any distinctions between forms of bigotry or forms of ideology that lose sight of the humanity of people. I can't stand… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him...I refuse to accept… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Larry Summers, I think, he had a long history of arrogance and relative ignorance about poor people's culture and working people's culture and so… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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