Common Quote by Hilaire Belloc

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Nationalism is an animal trait, not a human one - sacredness is a secular practice, not sectarian - culture is an act of expansion,…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

— Albert Einstein

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

— Jo Swinson

The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was…

— Ben Katchor

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

— Eric Hobsbawm

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

— Billy Collins

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

— Andrew O'Hagan

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

— Ernest Gellner

“Religion has been the larger contributor to nationality. It can be shown historically that kindred languages have not been sufficient to hold tribes together,…

— John Courtenay James

“But we must be completely clear...if nationalism is truly the hallmark of a people in the prime of its youth and energies, how does…

— Freidrich Reck-Malleczewen