Ajith Kumar Quotes

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

Cinema brings together people from all walks of life. It connects everybody. It's an art in motion.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are.

The country is the people.

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.

A great aggregation of men, sane of mind and warm of heart, creates a moral consciousness which is called a nation

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

One of the things that we're missing from our political dialogue right now is the idea that the United States is a home. It is more than an accounting sheet. It is more than the sum of its G.D.P., its total tax collections, or its total outlays. America is a family.

In South Africa, we kind of like looking for things that unite people in big, big groups.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

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

A nation is the same people living in the same place.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

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.

The BBC is part of the glue which binds the United Kingdom together. At those times of national moment - of joy or sadness, in the UK or around the world, at times when the nation wants to celebrate, mourn or just enjoy itself people turn to the BBC.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

The thing about being an Indian person is that you feel most at home with your own people.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.

Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation.