Compatriots Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
— Joan D. Chittister
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What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.
— Emile M. Cioran
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
— Umair Haque
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An outdated view still prevails that a low-carbon lifestyle requires immense personal suffering and sacrifice. In my view, nothing could be further from the truth.…
— Mark Lynas
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What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.
— Clifford Geertz
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The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather…
— Milton Friedman
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.…
— Mancur Olson
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Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term…
— Jiang Zemin
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The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act.
— Lawrence Halprin
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In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.
— Norodom Sihamoni
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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
— Norodom Sihamoni
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Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our…
— Nelson Mandela
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Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition - and perchance to some excess - I look upon all…
— Michel de Montaigne
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The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home…
— Nelson Mandela
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Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one…
— Mstislav Rostropovich
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All my compatriots are asses compared to me.
— Paul Cezanne
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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!
— Qiu Jin
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I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider…
— Pope John Paul II
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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Who Wrote These Compatriots Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 26 Compatriots Quotes as follows: