If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate…

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as…

— Wilma Scott Heide

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

— Joe Biden

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child…

— Jasmine Ann Cooray

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be…

— Strobe Talbott

The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much…

— Martha Nussbaum

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

— William Pfaff

“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.”

— George Monbiot

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

— John Tamihere

I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.

— Sushmita Sen

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

— Shimon Peres

Our civic society is really all we have by way of nationhood.

— Cokie Roberts

Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy.

— Martin Dansky

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

— Jimmy Carter

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto