Nationalism Quote by Vasily Grossman

“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

“Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception. Every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also — since he is conscious…

— George Orwell

“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

“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

“The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.”

— Bryant McGill

Nationalism makes us weak because its eternal seeking of enemies, its disdain of others, its need to feel superior makes cooperation with other nations…

— Frans Timmermans

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

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

— Ernest Gellner

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

— Andrew O'Hagan

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

— Albert Einstein

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