Thorstein Veblen Quote

All these peoples that now hope to be nations have long been nationalities. A nation is an organization for collective offence and defense, in peace and war, — essentially based on hate and fear of other nations; a nationality is a cultural group, bound together by home-bred affinities of language, tradition, use and wont, and commonly also by a supposed community race, — essentially based on sympathies and sentiments of self-complacency within itself.

The Vested Interests and the Common Man (1919)