Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

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

National identity does not figure in the Tamil way of thinking.

The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged.

The nation... doesn't simply need what we have. It needs what we are.

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

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

I hope for my children, and for all Mexicans, that they can be proud to be Mexican, proud of their heritage, and proud that they have a peaceful, inclusive, vibrant country that is playing a role in the world.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

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.

A nation is a historical group of men of recognizable cohesion, held together by a common enemy.

A portion of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by common sympathies which do not exist between them and any others—which make them co-operate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to be under the same government, and desire that it should be government by themselves or a portion of themselves exclusively.

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

We are all Americans, sir.

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.

A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is something that is built every day out of certain basic shared values.

Nationhood is not founded on religion but blood ties, a common culture and homeland.

Indian nationalism is the nationalism of an idea, the idea of an ever-ever land, emerging from an ancient civilization, shaped by a shared history, sustained by pluralist democracy.

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

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.

The thing about India is that even if the economic backgrounds are different, the cultural background is the same. Somebody who is working as a tailor will also tie a black thread around his kid's wrist; so will somebody in Bollywood. That's the fun of being Indian.

As citizens and children of India - whether we live at home or abroad - we must ask ourselves how we can add to our country's pride.

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.