Character Quote by Clive James

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who…

— Umberto Eco

Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds,…

— Kabir Bedi

France, freed from that monster, Bonaparte, must again become the most agreeable country on earth. It would be the second choice of all whose…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Nations have to be built on an inclusive identity.”

— Romila Thapar

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many…

— James A. Baldwin

“Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people…

— A.C. Grayling

“Nationalism calls forth the countermovement of internationalism.[84] Both are revolutionary in the same way. Prussia set the state over against them both. It wanted…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries, patriotism knows that a country's strength and honour can only…

— Ellen Key

There is a higher form of patriotism than nationalism, and that higher form is not limited by the boundaries of one's country; but by…

— Oscar Straus