Franz Grillparzer Quotes

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

A nation's character is the sum of its splendid deeds; they constitute one common patrimony, the nation's inheritance. They awe foreign powers, they arouse and animate our own people.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart.

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

A great silence has fallen upon the real soul of this nation.

A nation is a body of people united by a corporate sentiment of peculiar intensity, intimacy and dignity, related to a definite home-country.

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

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

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

Every nation has its own language as well as its own temperament.

The American Motion Picture industry should do all that is within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

I live in Australia, and I am Australian, and because I grew up in an era where we didn't have a film industry, and now we do, it's just really exciting for me to be able to say that I work in my own culture in a medium that I find fascinating.

I feel very German - and who can make himself a judge over what is German and what is not - in my ideas and the ideas of my spiritual brothers of German origin.

The Australian cast of mind is not something I would want to be without - and I couldn't be without. It's not a choice.

I don't really want the kind of Englishness that I have represented.

I think it is very possible that my deeper character is not very English.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

There's something about the soul of a country that is somehow connected to the head of state.

Forgetting the importance of national landscapes, cultures, national behaviours, reactions, and reflexes is a big, big mistake.

There is a heavy Mexican Catholic streak in my movies, and a huge Mexican sense of melodrama. Everything is overwrought, and there's a sense of acceptance of the fantastic in my films, which is innately Mexican. So when people ask, 'How can you define the Mexican-ness of your films?' I go, 'How can I not?' It's all I am.

Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.