German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) on nationalism and nationalists:

“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”

- Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms