All of nationalism can be understood as a kind of collective narcissism.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Nationalism has a way of oppressing others.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Sometimes nationalism can be jingoistic - even fascistic - but it can also be a constructive impetus that helps to unify a nation. Those whose nationalist critique of parties finds resonance with masses of voters can acquire vast power. We can only hope that they know what to do with it.
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
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.
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
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