National identity and symbols

Much as with theological modes of thought, secular religion presumes the need for a “beginning.” Of course, the beginning is not historical reality in the literal sense, but rather an…

In my opinion nationalism is a nation-religion. Nation-religion is an outgrowth of the Judeo-Christian culture.  It is a secular religion.[1] It shows the same characteristics wherever it developed. It assumes…

One of most significant intellectual phenomena in European history starting from the eighteenth century is the way evolving national consciousnesses function and the presence of nationalism that developed thereof. In…

The national sentiment and thought that emerged in the eighteenth century and became pervasive by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have occasionally manifested themselves in very strange forms. They created…

…whoever is ready for heroic death
Will be triumphant.
(Sándor Petőfi, “Lost Battles, Ignominious Flights”)

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“Hungarian! You are an orphaned Abandoned mortal. Prostrate among all the nations, Hungarian, have faith and the future is yours.”
(Mrs. Elemér Papp-Váry, Hungarian Credo, 1921)

“The millennial series of disasters is over.”
(István Örkény: Nézzünk bizakodva a jövőben 1967)
(Let us look confidently to the future)

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