Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Quotes

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

… half-formed pseudo nations

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

I'm a Zionist who believes that every person has to have a country of their own.

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

It's a complicated issue, but I define myself as an American, primarily.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

I've built my homeland, I've even founded my state - in my language.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

From Kurdistan to Catalonia to Scotland, from Syria to Chechnya to South Sudan, from indigenous communities in the Andean nations to tribal communities in sub-Saharan Africa, many people are shifting their primary political identities away from the nation-states in which they lived for many generations.

I am, as a human being, an opponent of nationalism, but as a Jew, I am from today a supporter of the Zionist effort

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

A nation is not a territorial unit. There are probably more Irishmen outside Ireland, more Norwegians outside Norway, more Jews outside Palestine, perhaps also more Scotsmen, Slovaks and Letts outside Scotland, Slovakia and Latvia than in the compact area of territory with which their national sentiments are related.

Where a Serb dwells, there is Serbia.

The European Union is robbing us of our national identities, our nation states.

A country without borders is not a country.

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.