Collective Quote by Geoff Mulgan Download Open image “All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.” — Geoff Mulgan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Collective Collective Narcissism Collectives Kind Kind Collective Narcissism Nationalism Nationalism Understood Patriotism Understood
“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
“The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.” — Bryant McGill 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
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. — Rosika Schwimmer 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
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 not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist... — Ernest Gellner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks -… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data,… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety. — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Close contact between science and the practice of collective farms and State farms creates inexhaustible opportunities for the development of theoretical knowledge, enabling us… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together,… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we."… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated. — Jonathan Zittrain Copy Share Image
We do not focus test our games and never had. People ask why we don't, and I say, 'I have so many opinions in… — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . .… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be the reason… — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people. — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Now we're in that sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated. But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
