nationality [Theme] Page 2

Under "nation", "national" never refers to people, real creatures, and abstract principle, advantageous for some social groups. This fundamental distinction of the nation from the people, which is always associated with people. National ideology is usually the ideology of class. Appealing to the national whole, they want to crush parts, consisting of people, beings who can suffer and rejoice. "Nationality" becomes the idol, demands human sacrifice, like all idols.

For me, nationality is a reason to rejoice in the beauty and diversity of creation.

To win the Russian is very difficult, but by Russian it is difficult to be winners!

Nationality is irrelevant, if people fit together and share a common worldview and values.

Now so few Greeks in Leningrad,
And, in General, outside of Greece were not enough of them.

Internationalism in one person is when an ethnic Tatar, according to the Christian religion and the conviction of a Jew.

Nationality, for each nation has her rock, her fate; maybe even black. The fate of its strength. "Fate will not go": and from "the fetters of the people," do not go.

Superior race - is not a nationality. Superior race - is Beethoven, Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy, Charlie Chaplin... And Hitler, Goebbels, Mussolini is small demons.

I completely deny any national peculiarities, in particular, the Slavic peoples, which is innate. This can not be. This is nonsense. There is, without a doubt, our peoples have a national all sorts of features, and behavioral including, but I'm sure they acquired. They've acquired through environment, education and even food. All anything, but at the genetic level is not transmitted in any case. To affect the acquisition by peoples such features may not only education, or something else, but the media. Definitely. As soon as these characteristics may become features of a whole people? I think that very soon, very quickly, to my great regret.

The herd has no nationality. A herd is a mass of people who have a brain at all or even complete absence of the brain.

National characteristics should not be exaggerated, to make them exceptional. National characteristics bring people together, to motivate people of other nationalities, and do not remove people from national environments of other peoples are not causing the Nations to himself.

The principle of nationality prevails over the people's principle of internal freedom. Peoples willingly agreed to lose their liberal institutions, than lose their name and their land.

... everyone will agree that patriotism is irrational, instead use harmful and lead the Nations to death, is the empty patriotism that expresses only unfounded claim, and is, finally, the patriotism is directly false, serving only the guise for the low, self-interested motives. <...> With regard to our Fatherland, Peter the Great and Pushkin - enough of these two names, to admit that our national spirit is exercising its dignity only in open communication with all of humanity, not alienated from it.

The most important thing is not whether you are a Jew or a Christian, but if you're a good person.