Hassan Al-Turabi Quotes

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

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

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Hungary together with her annexed territories is independent and should be governed and administered according to her own laws and customs and not as other provinces are.

Each nation has to find its own path and follow that path at its own speed.

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

The basis of any independent government is a national language, and we can no longer continue aping our former colonizers ... those who feel they cannot do without English can as well pack up and go.

Let the world be grafted onto our republics, but the trunk must be our own.

...The right to self-determination refers to the right of a given population (usually a nation) to create its own future more or less free from external coercion, but within the limits of the historical realities with which it is faced.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

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

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”

When I come to the airport, they always send me with all the other Israeli Arabs to the foreign workers' line. I don't mind. I feel like I belong more with all the people from abroad and the foreign workers than in the Israelis' line.

I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.

Kashmir is ours, Kashmiris are ours, and Kashmiriyat is also ours.

The old 20th-century political model of Left vs. Right is now basically irrelevant, and the real divide today is between global and national, global or local. All over the world, this is not the main struggle.

Many people say that we have sufficient laws in our country, just that they are not implemented properly. I completely disagree with them. I have studied many of the laws very carefully. We are still being governed by the same colonial laws which existed in British times. They have not been changed. Many of these laws need to be changed.

Australia is so influenced by America. It's kind of in-between the U.K. and the States.

We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law.

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

Nationalism is a central ideology for people who are trying to establish their own states in which they can play a dominant role.