Ernest Gellner Quotes About Nationalism

• Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

  Ernest Gellner

  Doe, Tribalism, Dare

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.84, Cornell University Press

• It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

  Ernest Gellner

  Way, Rounds, Nations

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.54, Cornell University Press

• I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.

  Ernest Gellner

  Song, Book, Writing

  "The Social Philosophy of Ernest Gellner". Book by John A. Hall, Ian Charles Jarvie, 1996.

• Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

  Ernest Gellner

  Self, Awakening, Consciousness

• In brief, nationalism is a theory of political legitimacy, which requires the ethnic boundaries should not be cut across political ones, and, in particular, that ethnic boundaries within a given state a contingency already formally excluded by the principle in its general formulation should not separate the power holders from the rest.

  Ernest Gellner

  Cutting, Political, Principles

  Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly (2008). “Nations and Nationalism”, p.1, Cornell University Press

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