Civic Quote by Cokie Roberts

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

— Steve Bannon

The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people.

— Ko Wen-je

I've spent my entire adult life encouraging minority communities to get involved in mainstream society, civic society.

— Sadiq Khan

Nationhood is more likely to guarantee autocracy, decadence and corruption than real democracy.

— Martin Dansky

In the past, most wars were motivated by the idea of nationhood. Today, however, wars are incited above all using religion as an excuse.

— Shimon Peres

I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.

— Sushmita Sen

No one has a monopoly on our unending story of nationhood; no one has the manual for our nationhood.

— John Tamihere

“All nationhood is to some extent the artificial, the product of historical accident, the convenience of tyrants and the disengagement of colonists.”

— George Monbiot

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

— William Pfaff

Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much…

— Martha Nussbaum

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be…

— Strobe Talbott

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child…

— Jasmine Ann Cooray

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

— Joe Biden

We will no longer be led only by that half of the population whose socialization, through toys, games, values and expectations, sanctions violence as…

— Wilma Scott Heide