#2,951

The people that awakes, first shouts, then gets drunk, pillages, [and] murders, and later goes back to sleep.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 471

#2,941

Except in a few countries, trying to “promote culture” while recommending the reading of “national authors” is a contradictory endeavor.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,181

The bourgeoisie, in the feudal framework, settles in small urban centers where it becomes structured and civilized.
With the break-up of this framework, the bourgeoisie spreads across all of society, invents the nationalist state, rationalist technology, anonymous urban agglomerations, industrial society, the mass man, and finally the process in which society wavers between the despotism of the mob and the despotism of the expert.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 355

#2,054

The nationalist vanity of the citizen of an important country is the most amusing, since the difference between the citizen and his country is greater there.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 333

#2,021

Collective pretentiousness comes to be more revolting than individual pretentiousness. Patriotism should be mute.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 328

#1,911

Literary nationalism selects its themes with the eyes of a tourist.
It sees nothing of its land but the exotic.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 312

#1,670

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective “natural” without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us.
From natural borders to natural religion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 279

#1,472

That patriotism which is not a carnal adhesion to specific landscapes, is rhetoric designed by semi-educated men to spur the illiterate on towards the slaughterhouse.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 248

#1,277

The “fatherland,” without any nationalistic bombast, is only the area which an individual contemplates around him after having climbed a hill.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 221

#1,079

The appearance of nationalism in any nation indicates that its originality is in its death throes.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 191

#852

When we hear the final chords of a national anthem, we know with certainty that someone has just said something stupid.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 156

#715

The three hypostases of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism.
The democratic trinity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 130

#533

Sometimes the crime to be committed is so horrible that the nation is not a good enough pretext and it is necessary to invoke humanity.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 102

#482

Let us not speak badly of nationalism.
Without the virulence of nationalism, Europe and the world would already be ruled by a technical, rational, uniform empire.
Let us give credit to nationalism for two centuries, at least, of spiritual spontaneity, of free expression of the national soul, of rich historical diversity.
Nationalism was the last spasm of the individual before the gray death awaiting it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 94

#309

A nation’s soul is born from an historical event, matures by accepting its destiny, and dies when it admires itself and imitates itself.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 68