20th century Quote by Terry Eagleton

“...revolutionary nationalism was by far the most successful radical tide of the the twentieth century.”

— Terry Eagleton

“The only modern ideology that still awards death a central role is nationalism. In its more poetic and desperate moments, nationalism promises that whoever…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently disguised and…

— Sov8840

While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the…

— Pat Buchanan

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

— Todd Gitlin

“Curious: At the very moment modern technology annuls all frontiers and distances (flying, wireless, television, economic interdependance), the most extreme nationalism is raging.”

— Victor Klemperer

“Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was…

— Jay Allison

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

— Jo Swinson

“As a group who can never afford the expensive fiction of having a nation—and whose bodies suffer from nationalism by being used as its…

— Gloria Steinem

Nationalism and extremism ... are spreading today like a cancerous growth in the fabric of people's national self-awareness.

— Raisa Gorbacheva

“The culture and ideology fostered in this globalization process relate largely to “lifestyle” themes and goods and their acquisition; and they tend to weaken…

— Noam Chomsky

One should be cautious about "general conceptions." I think a strong case can be made that activism today is as high as ever, perhaps…

— Noam Chomsky