GUY DEBORD
Society of the Spectacle

Although fascism rallies to the defense of the main points of bourgeois ideology which has become conservative (the family, property, the moral order, the nation), reuniting the petty-bourgeoisie and the unemployed routed by crisis or deceived by the impotence of socialist revolution, it is not itself fundamentally ideological.

It presents itself as it is: a violent resurrection of myth which demands participation in a community defined by archaic pseudo-values: race, blood, the leader.

Fascism is technically-equipped archaism. Its decomposed ersatz of myth is revived in the spectacular context of the most modern means of conditioning and illusion. Thus it is one of the factors in the formation of the modern spectacle, and its role in destruction... makes it one of the fundamental forces of present-day society.

ABHIJIT NASKAR
Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience

When someone plays fast and loose with rights and freedom, their place is either in the jungle or in a mental institution, not in office. Fascism, fundamentalism and nationalism, these are the ultimate mental illness.

ERICH FROMM

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love but idolatrous worship.

ERICH FROMM

Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. 'Patriotism' is its cult. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one's country which is not part of one's love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

RICHARD ALDINGTON
The Colonel’s Daughter (1931)

Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on its own dunghill.

BÉLA TARR
From a letter hung in front of the Hungarian Parliament

We have brought the planet to the brink of catastrophe with our greediness and our unlimited ignorance. With the horrible wars we waged with the goal of robbing the people there. Now we are confronted with the victims of our acts. We must ask the question: who are we, and what morality do we represent when we build a fence to keep out these people?

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Quoted in Albert Einstein - The Human Side (Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, 1979)

____________________

Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.