Julian Baggini Quotes

A nation is an organic thing.

Our flag is our identity, and we can't disrespect or let anyone else disrespect our identity.

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

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

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

Art is a nation's most precious heritage, for it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

Every nation has a home. The sentiment of nationality cannot gather simply round an idea or a memory or a program or about some function or status, such as a priesthood or an aristocracy or a Legion of Janissaries.

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

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

A flag translates into everything, from tacky souvenirs to the names of organizations and the way that flags function.

I decided that we should have a flag, that a flag fit us as a symbol, that we are a people, a tribe if you will. And flags are about proclaiming power, so it's very appropriate.

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

I talk about being Australian a lot.

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

I grew up in a country that I thought was special. And it was.

And my father, after all, was a nationalist.

Quite simply, quite plainly, just by virtue of his being, Obama is America. The first true American to lead our nation.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.