Nationalism/history

Famous quotes containing the words nationalism and/or history:

    “The course of modern learning leads from humanism via nationalism to bestiality.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)