Quotes of: National-identity Keyword

We don't need a nation that has national identity cards.

Malcolm Wallop

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

Dalia Mogahed

American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis.

Tom Hooper

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Identity theft is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the nation - especially in the suburbs.

Melissa Bean

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language and history), the identity of an individual human being as an object for mimetic representation.

The Virgin in the Garden

Boundaries, rulers, and names of nations can change, but the Earth is always our home and our source of life. Earth is the only indelible identity we can have. This is why I am suggesting that we expand our identities beyond the limits of nationality...

Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

The Prague Cemetery

We really believe our national interests are identical with European interests.

Gerhard Schroder

The loss of national identity is the greatest defeat a nation can know, and it is inevitable under the contemporary form of colonization.

Slobodan Milosevic

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves ...

Noah Feldman

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Mahmoud Darwish

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Cyril Cusack

A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a ...

Natasha Trethewey

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation wit...

Ulrich Beck

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Ron Chernow

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Mike Crapo

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Wilfred Burchett

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

Elvis Costello

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

Helen Clark

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Samuel P. Huntington