A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.