"The national feeling is a fact and must be considered by the institutions. If it is ignored, it is hidden and becomes a source of dispute. It can only remain harmless if it free path is allowed unless it is predatory is . But it's not a good or admirable feeling. There is nothing reasonable and desirable in the limit of sympathy, which is limited to a fraction of mankind. A man is right in general, if his thoughts more with the interests employ his own nation than with those of others, because his actions rather touching his own nation. "
Bertrand Russell: Policy Ideals, in: How the world can be made, Darmstadt sheets 1989, p. 80 f.
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