Felipe Fernandez-Armesto quotes
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“There has never been nationhood without falsehood.”
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto -
“As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history of the world from a fresh perspective and enables readers to see it in a new light. That he has managed to do so in a single conceptual work is nothing short of astounding.”
-- Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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“It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.”
Source : Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.54, Cornell University Press
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“Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.”
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“Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.”
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