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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

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

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

We should recognize that nationalism does not mean discriminating against people of a different nationality. It simply means not allowing such people to seize…

— Sun Yat-sen

“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

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...

— Ernest Gellner

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

Let's be clear: a nationalist is not a patriot.

— Frans Timmermans

“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

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

— Rosika Schwimmer

If nationalism makes us poor, weak, and morally insecure, how can it claim to be patriotic? I maintain that nationalists are unpatriotic.

— Frans Timmermans