I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
“Suatu bangsa tanpa pahlawan sama dengan kulkas tanpa isi, sepeser pun tiada arti” — Mahbub Djunaidi Copy Share Image
My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. — Dalia Mogahed 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
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
“National identity acts as a consumer lever to manipulate the emotions of the masses, for the purposes of power regulation and the… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.” — Neal Shusterman 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
We'll explain the appeal of curling to you if you explain the appeal of the National Rifle Association to us. — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. — Cyril Cusack Copy Share Image
An affection for Hong Kong and a national identity are not mutually exclusive. We can let children learn more about Hong Kong's… — Carrie Lam Copy Share Image
If the 14th Amendment represents the struggle to build inclusive models of national identity untethered from racial caste or classification, then Trump… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as… — Barkha Dutt 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
“Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the… — Jack Granatstein Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“Neither dynasty, nor language, nor religion brought about a Swiss national identity that could bolster a Swiss political nation. Instead, modern Switzerland… — Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head Copy Share Image
The identity of just one thing, the "clash of civilization" view that you're a Muslim or a Hindu or a Buddhist or… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan 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
The Brazilian national identity is not one of João Gilberto Noll primary concerns. This does not mean social critique is absent: race,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
The basis of national identity is to say, "This is authentic to me or my forebears," and is there even such a… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition… — Terence McKenna 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
“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
“…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
“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues… — Colin McArthur Copy Share Image
“Peter Friedrich, wer bin ich? Peter Frederick, who am I? German or American? The answer was neither and both. I had German… — Peter Dodds 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
“The prevalence of anti-patriotic attitudes among liberal intellectuals led some of them to warn their fellow liberals of the consequences of such… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
“Let me be very clear. For me geography does not exist! I strongly object to the whole concept of “foreign literature”...and speaking… — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
