Nationalism Quote by Ernest Gellner Download Open image “It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.” — Ernest Gellner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nationalism Patriotism Way
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
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
There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by… — Oscar Straus Copy Share Image
Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions. — Richard N. Haass Copy Share Image
Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again. — Jo Swinson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Nowledge which... transcends the bounds, the prejudices and prejudgements of any one society and culture is not an illusion but, on the contrary, a… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this view, is… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Civil Society is a cluster of institutions and associations strong enough to prevent tyranny, but which are, none the less, entered and left freely,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular,… — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
You have expressive nationalism, I mean very identity driven, which shaped each other a lot of that in the Middle East. — Subrahmanyam Jaishankar Copy Share Image
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism.… — Stellan Skarsgard Copy Share Image
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“Home is not just walls and a roof; it is where the heart finds love and peace, and where memories take root, grounding us… — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy.… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is… — Henri Bourassa Copy Share Image
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none. — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
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