”Nationalism consists essentially in collective self-glorification... What should we think of an individual who proclaimed: ‘I am morally and intellectually superior to all other individuals, and, because of this superiority, I have a right to ignore all interests except my own’? There are, no doubt, plenty of people who feel this way, but if they proclaim their feeling too openly, and act upon it too blatantly, they are thought ill of.”
— Bertrand Russell
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