The more pride you have in a particular aspect of your identity, the more motivated you will be to maintain the habits associated with it. Atomic Habits

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. Counsels and Maxims

The whole modern world has been shaped by lopsided outcomes. Guns, Germs And Steel

I have never said that human society ought to be aristocratic, but a great deal more than that. What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always, whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extreme that it is a society in the measure that it is aristocratic, and ceases to be such when it ceases to be aristocratic. Of course I am speaking now of society and not of the State. the Revolt of the Masses