Mohammed Al-Allasi Quotes

… half-formed pseudo nations

Japan is a great nation. It should begin to act like one.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It is trying to figure out what it is.

Every nation has a vision it lives for and is prepared to make all sacrifices. One may call it National purpose, … It is something which does not change. If it changes, a nation dies. It is supreme and therefore the nation acts and reacts with the limits laid down by it. It is the vision which allows a nation to build its future.

The Arab homeland is an indivisible political and economic unity, and all the differences existing between its sons are accidental and spurious, and will pass away with the awakening of Arab consciousness.

I am neither German or French but European.

Our economy of allegiance simply is not infinitely expandable. If we become more Virginian or Georgian, surely we will also feel more remote, less responsible for the poor of Kentucky or of the ghettoes of Chicago. If we became more Virginian, we would be less American.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state ... it means the end of a thousand years of history.

Just as one wife does not have two husbands so one land does not have two sovereign nations in possession of it.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by a common hatred of its neighbors.

A Volk [people] without a state is nothing, a lifelong frivolous phantom like the vagabond gypsies and Jews.

They shall forever be a part of the United States.

They [Americans] were the first self-constituted, self-declared, self-created, people in the history of the world.

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

We in the West tend to think of a nation subdivided into different religions. Islam sees itself as a religion subdivided into different nations.

Nations are not truly great solely because the individuals composing them are numerous, free, and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom, and this activity are employed in the service of an ideal higher than that of an ordinary man, taken by himself.

It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Where does this outcry about nationality, this emphasis on an indigenous language and history come from but the German universities, where learned fools have provoked the spirit of a quiet, sensible nation to madness and crime? There is the cradle of you Slavomania

There is a citizenship of the United States, and a citizenship of a State, which are distinct from each other, and which depend upon different characteristics or circumstances in the individual.

We are a separate nation by all the tests-race, language, religion, culture determining nationality. The only link connecting us with the other people of the State being the bond of common ruler. If the Indian National Congress could persuade itself to recognize: the Muslims of India as a separate nation although they had so much in common with the other elements of the Indian population, the Government of India should have no hesitation in recognition what is patent and Scout revertible fact in our case.

Germany is the new Sparta. The same spirit of national discipline and self-sacrifice which earned for a few thousand inhabitants of a small Greek city-state an enduring place in history is being reproduced here by 67,000,000 of what are in some ways the most intelligent, industrious and high-spirited, and hardy people in the world. The last two years have witnessed here a political process as profound and far-reaching in its effects as the French Revolution. Germany has set a new pace of human endeavor. She has acquired a national momentum without precedent in political dynamics.

This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their independent State may not be revoked. It is, moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other nations, in its own sovereign State.

It is the fight for national existence which sets culture moving and opens to it the doors of creation. Later on it is the nation which will ensure the conditions and framework necessary to culture