Edith Stein

Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.

German Saint

Jeremy Hardy

For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.

British Comedian

Robert Webb

Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.

English Comedian

Andrew O'Hagan

Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.

Scottish Novelist

Dennis Kucinich

Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.

American Politician

Julian Baggini

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

British Author

Miriam Toews

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.

Canadian Writer

Jimmy Carter

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

American President

Sushmita Sen

I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.

Indian Actress

Joe Biden

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

Nationhood often involves discussions on politics and history.

Political Concept

Nationhood can represent a long struggle for recognition and rights.

Historical Journey

Nationhood implies legal sovereignty recognized by other countries.

Legal Status

Nationhood can be felt as a shared identity among people.

Collective Identity

Nationhood encompasses traditions, languages, and cultural pride.

Cultural Significance

Nationhood can evoke strong emotional bonds and pride.

Emotional Ties

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