Rithy Panh Quotes

A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.

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

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

I am Turkey. To destroy me is to destroy Turkey.

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

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The Philippines, it might be said, is a country in search of an identity.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'

I believe in the stability of my country. I believe in unity.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I'm Australian! How much more alpha can you get?

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

A nation is a historical group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common enemy.

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.