“If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.” IfsPoliticsLanguageNationalismExileProgrammes Author:James Joyce
“How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.” YearsWarCountryPoliticsCommonAirCompetitionCastsNationalismCivilizedHypothesisCast Away Author:Laurence Sterne
“A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.” PoliticsNationsUnitedCommonHatredNeighborPatriotismNationalismDelusionNeighbourAncestryPatriotism And Nationalism Author:William Ralph Inge
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” MenGovernmentPoliticsFreedomLibertyIntegrityLibertarianDecentAshamedNationalismPlausibleLibertarian PartyDecent Man Author:H. L. Mencken