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Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.

I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

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 nationalism is that it becomes exclusionary. We start to exclude people.

All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

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

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.