Amartya Sen Quotes

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty .... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

The spirit of nationalism springs from the deepest of human emotions. It rises from the yearning of men to be free of foreign domination, to govern themselves. It springs from a thousand rills of race, of history, of sacrifice and pride in national achievement.

The question whether nationalism, patriotism, the love of the homeland, is beneficial either to the individual or to the human race as a whole is open to discussion. It might be a much better world if this instinct were eradicated. On the other hand, it might be worse. The fact is that the instinct exists, and that, far from losing its grip on us, on all of us, it is becoming constantly more intense, more exacting, more all-embracing…. Nationalism as we know it may pass, but for the moment it is more powerful than any other idea or even than any religion.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

It's good to be proud of your heritage and your culture, but pride can be perverted.

The pride I feel in representing my people, no matter where I am, is never going to diminish. I could be in Hong Kong, Singapore, Egypt or even Las Vegas, I'll always be representing my people.

I love this country. I love tradition. And I just want to make sure our country's heading in the right direction.

I'm gonna be real everywhere I go, but I'm with my people, I'm connected to my roots - I'm in my country! I don't need to live somewhere else.

Greek blood courses through me.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

I am not today, nor have I ever been a Jew, and as a matter of fact, I am uncircumcised.

What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.

The Pride of ancestry increases in the ratio of distance.

Be as proud of your race today as our as our fathers were in days of yore. We have beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world.

I grew up in a very culturally diverse area of America and I am very proud to come from there.

The Russian people, at least the ones I know, have pride in being a Russian. And, therefore, they want to be taken seriously in international affairs.

I am proud of where I come from and I will never forget the people I grew up with.

I have no desire to live anywhere else but New Zealand. I've had the good fortune to travel widely around the world, but New Zealand is home - and I like to be here. I'm proud to be a New Zealander.

Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.

Happiness is a very proud word of our whole cultural heritage.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.

I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.