Nationalism Quotes

“Will someone’s loyalty to his close family be undermined if he is told that such loyalty is unearned? Of course not”
― Keith Woods, Nationalism: The Politics of Identity

“Nationalism is rooted in sentiment, in feelings of love of one’s own: one’s family, one’s people, one’s homeland, along with its history and myths.”
― Keith Woods, Nationalism: The Politics of Identity

“They (bureaucrats) are generally quite comfortable economically, meaning they can afford “luxury beliefs.” They don’t have to worry about immigrants taking their jobs, and there are few pressing concerns in their private lives that would make them sympathetic to populist politics. Why should that”
― Keith Woods, Nationalism: The Politics of Identity

“Large-scale political orders also tend toward despotism and technocracy. By contrast, political theorists from Plato and Aristotle to Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Leopold Kohr emphasize that small-scale societies promote virtue, freedom, high culture, and diversity, both biological and cultural.”
― Keith Woods, Nationalism: The Politics of Identity