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  • We don't need a nation that has national identity cards. -- Malcolm Wallop
  • American cinema tends to express a patriotic relationship to national identity on a regular basis. -- Tom Hooper
  • I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why. -- Elvis Costello
  • Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. -- Wilfred Burchett
  • Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French. -- Cyril Cusack
  • 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
  • You talked about national identity cards and the terrorism bill. We have made a government that has grown used to viewing us as subjects, has grown used to seeing its role as commanding us. -- Malcolm Wallop
  • We, the people. Manifest Destiny. Conceived in liberty. Fear itself. Ask not. Morning in America. United we stand. Yes, we can. In times of great change and tumult, presidents seek to inspire beleaguered Americans by reminding them of their national identity. -- Ron Fournier
  • Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity. -- Ron Chernow
  • My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim. -- Dalia Mogahed
  • Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations. -- Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • It is terribly important to maintain a national identity in a way that it probably wasn't before. -- Robert Dessaix
  • We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity -- Dennis Prager
  • The Palestinian people have no national identity. I, Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel. -- Yasser Arafat
  • Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride. -- Mike Crapo
  • Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores. -- Barack Obama
  • 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. -- Umberto Eco
  • Mundane humans create distinctions between themselves, distinctions that seem ridiculous to any Shadowhunter. Their distinctions are based on race, religion, national identity, any of a dozen minor and irrelevant markers. ~ Valentine -- Cassandra Clare
  • The English are worried about the Euro being brought in because of loss of national identity and rising prices. In Scotland, people are just worried in case they have to close Poundstretcher. -- Frankie Boyle
  • 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 that way. -- Noah Feldman
  • Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity. -- Noah Feldman
  • Almost 20 percent of the people living in Germany today have a foreign background. The problem is that Germany can't really offer foreigners an identity because the Germans hardly have a national identity themselves. That is certainly a result of Auschwitz. -- Bassam Tibi
  • National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write. -- Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others. -- Antony Beevor
  • 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 larger public history. -- Natasha Trethewey
  • Freedom and diversity guard each other, and if a country could form the whole of one's character, Napoleon III and Victor Hugo would have been the same person... if national identity means anything, it means something that comes with you wherever you go, and stays with you no matter how long you stay away. -- Clive James
  • The Palestinian people have no national identity. -- Yasser Arafat
  • Trump's "Make America Great Again" program trumpets a national identity built on scapegoating, self-pity and grandiosity, and the promise of a strongman. -- Susan Faludi
  • It is quite understandable that Puerto Ricans seek to preserve a cultural sense of identity without separating politically from U.S. national sovereignty. -- Dick Thornburgh
  • 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
  • I'd say that my identity is really a culinary identity, so the way I relate to my national heritage is through its cuisine. -- Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark
  • It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be? -- Lakshmi Mittal
  • As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being. -- Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Recognizing Quebec as being different, recognizing our history, recognizing our identity, has never meant a weakening of Quebec and has never been a threat to national unity. -- Jean Charest
  • Canadians were the first anti-Americans, and the best. Canadian anti-Americanism, just as the country's French-English duality, has for two centuries been the central buttress of our national identity. -- Jack Granatstein
  • True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute. -- Desmond Tutu
  • Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity. -- Tom Hayden
  • Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism. -- Cameron Sinclair
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