Vladimir Putin Quotes

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

We are not America. We are Afghanistan.

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

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

I keep wondering who defends Quebec identity: who defends sovereignty, the right of the people to express themselves freely.

The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture as ingredients of nationhood.

Over the course of history, the answer to nationalism has been liberalism, and I believe it can be the answer again.

Europe's greatest problem is cultural relativism. This has led to a situation where Europeans no longer know what they should be proud of and who they really are because a so-called liberal and leftist-imposed concept says that all cultures are the same.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

The majority of Western culture came out of Europe, which is not comparable to America. It came out of nation states based on geographical and ethnic foundations. America is based on principles, a very different kind of country.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.

I am not a nationalist in any way, and I hate flag waving, and I don't think much good has come out of nationalism. I am proud of Scandinavia in the sense that we have actually managed to create a very tolerant and human society, which is very livable.

We can't bypass our heritage. We can't bypass the knowledge of who we are. You don't take a DNA test to see if you believe in freedom. Freedom is taught, and teaching the Constitution - I won't go on too much.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

'Liberal' is a great word - from the root, 'liberty,' which means free.

It is my strong belief that the Chinese people are just as proud as we Americans are proud.

It is important to understand the philosophy of the city and country.

I grew up with so much of the identity of being Muslim and being Arab tied around politics.

Make America Great Again was a political slogan. It was used before, I believe Ronald Reagan used it before. It was about making America great and rallying America. Unfortunately, I would say 10 percent of the population that voted for President Trump has a different view. They have embraced it as 'Make America White Again.'

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle.

If you play in this country, live in this country, and you grow up in the heartland - and you put on a Russian uniform - you are not a patriotic person.

The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum.

Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.

Truth be told, relying on 'one country, two systems' to preserve our values is a lost cause.

As a child of the Commonwealth, I had been brought up to believe Great Britain was the promised land, a culture where the rule of law was observed and decency was embedded in the national fabric.