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)

    “When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.”
    —William James (1842–1910)