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„In a wide variety of cases, a political leader has mobilized followers around the perception that the group's dignity had been affronted, … or otherwise disregarded. This resentment engenders demands for public recognition of the dignity of the group in question. A humiliated group seeking restitution of its dignity carries far more emotional weight than people simply pursuing their economic advantage.“

„…contemporary liberal democracies had not fully solved the problem of thymos. Thymos is the part of the soul that craves recognition of dignity; isothymia is the demand to be respected on an equal basis with other people; while megalothymia is the desire to be recognized as superior. … Entire countries can feel disrespected, which has powered aggressive nationalism, as can religious believers...“