Nation: “a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours”.
Patriotism, as conservatism, devotes something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same. (sorry Orwell)

What George Orwell had told me about the Western regimes and societies, especially the imperialist ones, before I lived in one of them.

"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."