Nationalism is militant hatred. It is not love of our countrymen: that, which denotes good citizenship, philanthropy, practical re...ligion, should go by the name of patriotism. Nationalism is passionate xenophobia. It is fanatical, as all forms of idol-worship are bound to be. And fanaticism--l'infame denounced by Voltaire--obliterates or reverses the distinction between good and evil. Patriotism, the desire to work for the common weal, can be, must be, reasonable: "My country, may she be right!" Nationalism spurns reason: "Right or wrong, my country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cul...tural imports.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siècle. What holds humanity together today is the den...ial of what the human race has in common.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »