Jan Kollar Quotes

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Country is not a mere zone of territory. The true country is the idea to which it gives birth ... the sense of communion which united in one all the sons of that territory.

Nationalism usually conquers in the name of a putative folk culture.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

Where new states have come into being, they have invariably swaddled themselves in sacred symbols and shibboleths forged in more dedicated struggles, beginning with an often random tricolor and a national anthem.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed — selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful — we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic — and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals?

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

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

Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.

Where a Serb dwells, there is Serbia.

I'd rather be Welsh than English, that's for sure.

Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.

There are times this stony heart of mine feels a burst of British pride.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

I sing the Italian anthem with all my soul, with my whole body.

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 more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

Nobody can send me to Pakistan. India is my country, and I love my country. Five generations of my family have lived and died on this land, and even my children will live in this country because this is my homeland.

I'm Yemeni, proud to be Yemeni. I'm public Yemeni number one!