Nations and Nationalism since 1780 Quotes

“A purely state-based patriotism is not necessarily ineffective, since the very existence and functions of the modern territorial citizen-state constantly involve its inhabitants in its affairs, and, inevitably, provide an institutional or procedural ‘landscape’ which is unlike any other such landscape and is the setting for their lives, which it largely determines.”
― Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality