All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism. John Lukacs More Quotes by John Lukacs More Quotes From John Lukacs Populism is folkish, patriotism is not. One can be a patriot and a cosmopolitan. But a populist is inevitably a nationalist of sorts. Patriotism, too, is less racist than is populism. A patriot will not exclude a person of another nationality from the community where they have lived side by side and whom he has known for many years, but a populist will always remain suspicious of someone who does not seem to belong to his tribe. John Lukacs patriotism community years Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook. John Lukacs everyday writing two There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves, that they don't really believe what they say, that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men. John Lukacs men order believe But then history does not only consist of documents. John Lukacs documents doe history Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course. John Lukacs brooms matter forever Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. John Lukacs super-power billions chinese
