National identity Quote by Clive H. Church and Randolph C. Head

“The principle of the national state, that is to say, the political demand that the territory of every state should coincide with the territory…

— Karl R. Popper

Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less…

— Peter Bichsel

The structure of the Swiss ruling class is rock-hard, and unchanged since the time of Napoleon. They sit on their mountains and lecture the…

— Jean Ziegler

“When you're dealing with Switzerland, Mr. Allon, it's best to keep one thing in mind. Switzerland is not a real country. It's a business,…

— Daniel Silva

“I have either read or heard this truth, which the Americans should never forget: That the silence of historians is the surest record of…

— Robert Yates George Clinton Samuel Bryan

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only…

— Gertrude Stein

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

— Lord Byron

“Dominated by Zionism's particular concept of nationality, the State of Israel still refuses, sixty years after its establishment, to see itself as a republic…

— Shlomo Sand

I'm quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.

— James Balog

“If the future remains uncertain, we know the past history of nationalism. And that should be sufficient to encourage a habit of watchful suspicion.”

— Michael Billig

“Most nations argue that they are a natural and eternal entity, created in some primordial epoch by mixing the soil of the motherland with…

— Yuval Noah Harari

[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made…

— Mary Ruwart