Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
You can have your country and be pleased to welcome others to it. You can have your country and still enjoy living… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Who is to blame in what country? Never can get to the one. Dealing in multiplication and they still can't feed everyone. — Eddy Grant Copy Share Image
You are not a country, Africa. You are a concept… You are not a concept, Africa. You are a glimpse of the… — Ali Mazrui Copy Share Image
“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've always loved representing my country, and it's something I've missed. — Jack Wilshere Copy Share Image
“It's your choice to make, Kallik. I made my choice when I left my homeland. My home is with you now. Wherever… — Erin Hunter Copy Share Image
I will believe in myself, I'll believe in my team, I believe in my country, and I'll just keep working and keep… — Leon Edwards Copy Share Image
The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
“They are hedonic refugees, moving to a new land, a new culture, because they are happier there. Usually, hedonic refugees have an… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
This patriotic revolution where people want to find their own identity are not racist but want to fight for the preservation of… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
We live in the greatest country in the world, but the tone and destructive rhetoric across the ideological spectrum is tearing our… — Mike Braun Copy Share Image
“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A really large amount of sympathy with both pain and joy (a feeling of pleasure resulting from being herded together, which is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This… — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
I know we have a lot of poverty and we have a lot of problems over here in the U.S., but for… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
“But one way or another, it is insulting to the Founders’ memory to associate any patriotic feelings you have for the memory… — Maggie McNeill Copy Share Image
Loving your homeland is just as natural as loving your father or mother - after all, your country nourishes you, protects you,… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
“As the twenty-first century unfolds, nationalism is fast losing ground. More and more people believe that all of humankind is the legitimate… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the country is going to be great, everybody has a gift, and I tell every child I meet, whether they have… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
“If I’m lucky, like today, I get to be the U.S.A., which is a country-country; who doesn’t know that the U.S.A. is… — NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names Copy Share Image
In front of you I commit myself to serve my country with devotion. — Francois Hollande Copy Share Image
