Rana Daggubati Quotes

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

Speaking for the nation as a whole entails understanding and feeling the pain, as well as understanding the aspiration of the different cultural, social and political make-up of the nation.

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.

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

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

If the communists can bring together 300 million Russians and China almost a billion Chinese, we ought to be able to get together with Alabama.

It is a hard and difficult thing to do to create a nation

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

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

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

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

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.

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.

No nation is formed within a night, one generation's era of even two. A nation can be described as the continuous string of many generations that time, this pitiless, thoughtless sword of nature, separates their physical connections along the course of their history.

Individualities may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Europe has grown to 27 member states, encompassing an amazing diversity and richness. Some argue this is part of the problem: Europe is simply too big and culturally disparate to be managed properly. But look to India for an example of how social unity can be forged within a culturally, linguistically, and ethnically complex nation.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.

Each citizen of India is a nation builder.

We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.

There are Jews who came from 102 countries and speak 81 languages - how do you consolidate them into one nation? This is where I saw my role.