Now that the most interesting matter of identity is not what place someone was born in, but what point in time they… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“I propose the following definition of the nation: it is an imagined political community-and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign. It… — Benedict Anderson Copy Share Image
“Funny, there had been a time when building things was what America did. From massive dams to towering skyscrapers, from mechanized factories… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
If you want to control the world you need to control the oil. Therefore the destruction of Iraq is a prerequisite to… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
“I want to dedicate today's journal to Football . I hated it before because of my father and elder brother: they were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
It's unwise to say nation-states wanting to retain their national identity in Europe should be dissuaded or stopped from doing so. Nationalism… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“Whenever a party tells you national identity matters more than anything else in politics, that nationalism can sort out all the other… — C.J. Sansom Copy Share Image
“What changed at the end of the eighteenth century, therefore, was not so much the discovery of a fundamentally new concept in… — Gavin Wright Copy Share Image
We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed Copy Share Image
NATO believes it can pick on a small nation and force us to surrender our independence. And that is where NATO miscalculated.… — Slobodan Milosevic Copy Share Image
But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“this fear of growing to resemble Europe was part of the reason why the United States in 1910–1920 pioneered a very progressive… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The major religious fundamentalisms—Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu—certainly all demonstrate intense concern for and scrutiny of bodies, through dietary restrictions, corporeal rituals,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Differences between Catholic and Protestant countries did not incite rivalries between European states, or cause the growing sense of national identity and,… — Fiona MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Thus even the most wretched individual breaths like a leaf in a verdant forest. His national identity supported him. A revered history… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“…We tend to form comfort zones based on similarity, and then produce macro- opinions and clichés about ‘Others’, whom, in fact, we… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“A language has genius. Some works translate well, others are untranslatable. Molière is effective only in French. Without knowing Arabic nobody has… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
“How on earth could she now tell Armanoush that, though only nineteen, she had known many men's hands and did not feel… — Elif Şafak Copy Share Image
I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confused, so I grew up… — Sophie Hawley-Weld Copy Share Image
National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
