Shri Cheewang Rigzin Quotes

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

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

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

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

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

… half-formed pseudo nations

I am neither German or French but European.

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

Nationalism is spiritual and all-embracing, in the sense that it opens its arms to and spreads its wings over all those who have shared with the Arabs their history and have lived in the environment of their language and culture for generations, so that they have become Arab in thought and feeling. There is no fear that nationalism will clash with religion, for, like religion, it flows from the heart and issues from the will of God; they walk arm in arm, supporting each other, especially when religion represents the genius of the nationality and is in harmony with its nature.

Without Nationality neither liberty nor equality is possible- and we believe in the holy Fatherland, that is the cradle of nationality, the altar and patrimony of the individuals that compose each people.

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

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

From Kurdistan to Catalonia to Scotland, from Syria to Chechnya to South Sudan, from indigenous communities in the Andean nations to tribal communities in sub-Saharan Africa, many people are shifting their primary political identities away from the nation-states in which they lived for many generations.

The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.

The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.

Quebec does not have Opinions, but only sentiments.

We do not want the Quebec nation to disappear.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The Serbian people certainly will never be an obstacle for the Montenegrins to have their own country.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

We Nigerians must reclaim our sovereignty, our civic entitlements.

As far as Muslim India is concerned, we have forged our own charter and that is Pakistan. We are not going to budge an inch from the position we have taken. Nothing will make us swerve from our goal.

After centuries the time has come when India has gained independence from foreign rule and it's the time when we all [the Independent Princely States) should unite for our motherland""