Identity Quote by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar

You have different parties, different factions, you have different ideologies ; you have everything in Middle East region now.

— Bashar al-Assad

So much of what we see and hear about the Middle East focuses on what we call politics, which is essentially ideology. But when…

— Annia Ciezadlo

Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I feel nationalism is the basic essence of my statements or revolts.

— Suresh Gopi

Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

I don't know very much about, honestly, about the Middle East, and yet I've played a lot of different people from a lot of…

— Meryl Streep

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

— Albert Einstein

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

— Rosika Schwimmer

In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned…

— Tim Minchin

“Arab nationalism in its traditional form was the way in which secular Arab Christians like Edward had found and kept a place for themselves,…

— Christopher Hitchens

I have always been conscious of the importance and the strength of nationalism, and this has led me straight to the acknowledgment of the…

— Uri Avnery

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common,…

— George W. Bush