Voltaire Quotes

A nation without a language is a nation without a heart.

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

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

The day a race ceases to express its thought and its sentiments in that language which has grown with it and which took form with its ethnic temperament, it is lost as a race. The preservation of its language is absolutely necessary to the preservation of the race, of its genius, its character and it's temperament.

A nation is the totality of people who speak the same language.

To have another language is to possess a second soul.

There is a pride in speaking this language.

The Sami, as an indigenous people, as well as the Roma and other groups, have the right to maintain and develop their own language and culture.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

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.

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture

Cultural goods … are the source of the Nation's identity, continuity and development.

Each nation grows after its own genius, and has a civilization of its own.

A nation is not a linguistic unit. The English-speaking peoples, whether under the Union Jack or not, are, with one exception, not English; neither are the German-speaking Swiss and Austrians German, nor the French-speaking Swiss and Belgians and Canadians French.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

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

It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.