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National festivals and monuments are used to breed antagonism and hatred for other nations
Drawn from what Leo Tolstoy said
What Leo Tolstoy actually said
- Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral philosopher (1828 to 1910)
The patriotic superstition is encouraged by the creation, with money taken from the people, of national fêtes, spectacles, monuments, and festivals to dispose men to attach importance to their own nation, and to the aggrandizement of the state and its rulers, and to feel antagonism and even hatred for other nations.
Where this was said
↗The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894; Constance Garnett translation)gutenberg.org
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