Yair Lapid Quotes

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

The most important and brave thing someone can do, I think, in the face of dehumanization, is to continue to assert their humanity.

I think it's a disgrace that some would allow extreme voices in this country to erase our proud heritage.

The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.

I am proud of Russia and I am sure that the vast majority of Russian citizens have great love and respect for their Motherland. We have much to be proud of: Russian culture and Russian history. We have every reason to believe in the future of our country. But we have no obsession that Russia must be a super power in the international arena. The only thing we do is protecting our vital interests.

All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have never been displaced; but the peoples on the peripheries are always being displaced. That is why they insist upon their continuity - their links with their dead and the unborn.

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Well, I'm Czech, but Polish, Czech, no matter, it's my name.

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.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.

I love my people. They have the right to live like any other nation on Earth.

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

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.

This is the America we know because we built it.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.