All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the…

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

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

— Jimmy Carter

“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of citizens who…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

— Martin Dansky

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

— Cokie Roberts

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

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

— Sushmita Sen

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

— John Tamihere

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

— William Pfaff

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 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

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

— Strobe Talbott

“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

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

— Joe Biden

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto