Nations which don't find their national identities will be…

People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no…

— Barack Obama

In the 21st century nations don't invade other nations.

— John McCain

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

— Simon Schama

When we attach ourselves to national identities, then we enter into a cycle of conflict. I didn't choose where I was born or who…

— Ashraf Barhom

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

— Geert Wilders

The nation has placed its faith in the precept that all laws should be inspired by actual needs here on earth as a basic…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

— Cyril Cusack

“Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation; thus the…

— Tony Judt

“The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn their fellow liberals of the consequences of such attitudes for…

— Samuel P. Huntington

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

— Dennis Prager

“According to royal doctrine, the king’s role as defender of Egypt (and the whole of creation) involved the corresponding defeat of Egypt’s neighbors (who…

— Toby A.H. Wilkinson

“But the alternative is the return to power of Labour. This is the party which did more than any other to wreck Britain with…

— David Craig

A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

— Slobodan Milosević