Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Why is Mexican nationalism a good thing, but putting American interests first needs defending?
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
For all the farcical invoking of Blitz spirit, Brexit isnβt merely an absurdist experiment in English nationalist nostalgia - it is the most audacious example yet of a futuristic Russian nationalism that seeks to divide and rule Europe.
When societies go backwards and slide into authoritarianism, nationalism, and tribalism, machismo and sexism are also emboldened.
In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
The E.U. is an organization that was created after the Second World War for calming down the nationalism of member states, and it did so very successfully.
The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.
I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field; it's in contention with a lot of different things.
The United States was seriously defeated in Iraq by Iraqi nationalism - mostly by nonviolent resistance. The United States could kill the insurgents, but they couldn't deal with half a million people demonstrating in the streets.
I don't feel particularly attached to Israel - 'nationalism,' as Noam Chomsky said, 'is not my cup of tea' - but I feel no particular need to demonize it.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.
Nationalism is like alcoholism: a short period of exaltation followed by a long period of headaches.
German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
I would like to promote internal change in Iran - which is more likely if we don't fuse Iranian nationalism with Iranian fundamentalism.
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.