If your country is wiped off the map and your language is banned, if your literature has to serve a cause, it… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
When I was still a child, there was the Metaxis, a Fascist Youth Movement in which all subteenagers and teenagers were obligatory… — Mikis Theodorakis Copy Share Image
When I was young, I overheard a Brit say Canada wasn't a real country because it doesn't have any poets. Even then,… — David McFadden Copy Share Image
Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
There are many faces to war. There is the face of courage, of bravery, of fellowship.There is the face of fear. Above… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
If the travels of a country were to be chronicled by its cars, in the journey from the Ambassador to the Nano… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
The real question is, at the end of the day, do we want to run our country? Are we proud of who… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
“We are a race of tradition-lovers in a new land, of king-reverers in a Republic, of hero-worshipers in a society of mundane… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
“We often hear about how we need to be more tolerant: to make room for people, ideas, and actions with which we… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
That sense – the only true patriotism – comes slowly and springs from the heart: it is founded upon respect for the… — Livy Copy Share Image
“The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought without patriotism, when men… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or… — Lord Paulmerston Copy Share Image
Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and friends behind. You can retain your citizenship… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
I feel, if I criticize my country, it's not because I don't like my country. I love my country. That is my… — Soni Razdan Copy Share Image
Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Sanitation should not be seen as a political tool, but should only be connected to patriotism (rashtrabhakti) and commitment to public health. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
American acculturation is a very powerful form of brainwashing. I know more about it now, but it's very difficult to move away… — Dan Burt Copy Share Image
Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“Laws cannot succeed in rekindling the ardor of an extinguished faith, but men may be interested in the fate of their country… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have… — Susan Lindauer Copy Share Image
As to those in the World Trade Center...Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort.… — Ward Churchill Copy Share Image
It has been my constant aim and desire to cultivate peace and commerce with all nations. Tranquility at home and peaceful relations… — James K Polk Copy Share Image
I know this was the soil on which I was born: but I have nothing to glorify this as my country. I… — Augustus Washington Copy Share Image
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It would be the simplest thing to say, my homeland is where I was born. But when you returned, you found nothing.… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
“For the first time in their memory, certainly since the earliest beginnings of the Civil War, Americans facing the shared tragedy of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
Everybody spoke English in my class, and they would turn to me and say, "What's going on in your country?" I would… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“There is a notion gaining credence that the free market breaks down national barriers, and that corporate globalization's ultimate destination is a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am deeply moved by the warmth and courage of the Canadian people which I felt so strongly during my recent visit… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Without a complex knowledge of one's place and without the faithfulness to one's place on which such knowledge depends, it is inevitable… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“As a form of neurosis, race-conscious nationalism almost always ignores logic and knowledge: In the East European civil wars between 1918 and… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you --… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
