And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too…

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind…

— Tycho Brahe

“of yourself and of other people. If you wish to attain to lasting happiness you must be ready to hate father, mother, even your…

— Anthony de Mello

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

— Virginia Hamilton

With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to…

— Tycho Brahe

An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

— Tycho Brahe

Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

— Pietro Aretino

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

— Witold Gombrowicz

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple…

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

— Hans Schemm

There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

— Adolf Hitler

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

— Sitting Bull