Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy. — Martin Dansky Copy Share Image
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.” — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood. — John Tamihere Copy Share Image
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
“Where do nations begin? In airport lounges, of course. You see them arriving, soul by soul, in pre-activation mode. They step into… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions… — Wilma Scott Heide Copy Share Image
What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“Mr. Schoenbrun, we have a secret weapon ... don't smile when I tell you this. Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
“No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
“The construction of a new body of knowledge always bears direct connection to the ideology in which it operates. Historical insights that… — Shlomo Sand Copy Share Image
I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country. — Sushmita Sen Copy Share Image
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
