Mikhail Bakunin Quotes

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

I don't know whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, but I have no such thing as national pride. I don't feel proud that I am Iranian. I happen to be who I am.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

Traditionally, the ideology of the United States nationhood perpetuated the myth that immigrants would shed their particularistic ethnic identities and loyalties. Eventually these “strangers” would be assimilated into a homogeneous body politic that was based on the equality of individual rights.

All these nations and peoples of Europe and Asia will insist upon their independence and their own cultures.

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

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.

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

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.

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

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

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

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

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

I feel Anglo-American.