National pride is to countries what self-respect is to individuals: a necessary condition for self-improvement. — Richard Rorty Copy Share Image
Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and… — Henry Golding Copy Share Image
“All the propagandist like FIFA, ICC, Olympics are hypnotizing you to be radical patriotic in the name of sports.” — Anup Joshi Copy Share Image
Playing for the national team, you are aware that a whole country wants you to succeed, but you mustn't get side-tracked. — David Alaba Copy Share Image
If what your country is doing seems to you practically and morally wrong, is dissent the highest form of patriotism? — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once. — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
I was born in an enemy country. Only in America can someone who came from that beginning do what I am doing.… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
“"Blind nationalism, like a distorting mirror at a fairground, bends the critical capacity of the beholder; and those who distinguish their personal… — Tim Tzouliadis Copy Share Image
My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing . . . Long may our land be bright,… — Samuel Francis Smith Copy Share Image
We've conflated football games with patriotic zeal. I don't think attending a football game is any more patriotic than walking down the… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
It is the unshakeable determination and will of our Party to put forward young people in the vanguard of the ranks of… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
I am a proud Englishman, having been born and raised in London. However, I am just as proud of my family's Irish… — Declan Rice Copy Share Image
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination.… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Four Americans, four patriots, they loved this country and they chose to serve it, and served it well. They had a mission… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
At home and abroad, military men and women are showing purpose and dedication in defending American ideas. They are performing in our… — Melvin Laird Copy Share Image
“Prior to the rebellion the great mass of the people were satisfied to remain near the scenes of their birth. In fact… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
I am a patriot. I have always sought to serve my country, in theory a Republic. Learning that secrecy was evil rather… — Robert David Steele Copy Share Image
Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
These days, it feels to me like you make a devil's pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Great country, diminutive minds. America is formless, has no terrible and no beautiful condensation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Country's more than about what the music sounds like. It's what you're saying and who you are as a person. — Cole Swindell Copy Share Image
You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country. — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
I feel so honored that I'm bringing part of the culture of my country to other countries, you know, like the funk… — Anitta Copy Share Image
This America has been the country of greed rather than the country of need. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
Leading my country out at the World Cup was something I'll never forget. — Mark Viduka Copy Share Image
It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always… — Johnny Van Zant Copy Share Image
It is in the midst of the city that one writes the most inspiring pages about the country. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
We have to stick up for ourselves as people and we have to stick up for our country when we're being mistreated,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little. — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
If you sit back and simply allow your country to be, it is highly unlikely to be the kind of country you… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law. — Olusegun Obasanjo Copy Share Image
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
