Stanko Vraz Quotes

Let every man honor and love the land of his birth and the race from which he springs and keep their memory green. It is a pious and honorable duty .... If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives; and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

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

We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

We are Englishmen; that is one good fact.

The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't.

Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society; it is a product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product.

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

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

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

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

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Where a Serb dwells, there is Serbia.

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

A country cannot develop without a strong identity.

We are now all Pakistanis — not Baluchis, Pathans, Sindhis, Bengalis, Punjabis and so on — and as Pakistanis, we must feet behave and act, and we should be proud to be known as Pakistanis and nothing else.

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.

I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment.

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

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

I'm not really clear what the whole deal is with flags. I like my flag, but I wouldn't die for it. There's issues of identity, of course. That's going to always come in. I, for example, don't want to be called a 'North Britisher.' I want to be Scottish.

A good nationalism has to depend on a principle of the common people, on myths of a struggling commonality.

You carry your country with you, it's part of your baggage.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

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.