Community Quote by William Ralph Inge

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

— William Ralph Inge

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

— Karl Deutsch

“A nation ashamed of it's ancestry will be despised by it's posterity.”

— Charles B. Galloway

“Peoples, populations, native populaces, tribes and religious communities are not nations, even though they are often spoken of as such.”

— Shlomo Sand

“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”

— George W. Bush

“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

— Timothy Snyder

“What is a nation?”

— Timothy Baycroft

“A nation is not the soil. A nation is the people.”

— Sujatha Gidla

“There is a grand union beyond nationalism which serves all people, and which is rooted in what is real, versus what has been created…

— Bryant McGill

“Nationalism had now replaced neighborliness.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“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

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

— Bryant McGill