Nationality Quotes

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy

You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.

In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality.

I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality.

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest.

If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England.

The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality.

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

I shoot in Mexico, but I can shoot in India, anywhere. I have no nationality myself. My nationality is the planet.

Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!"

Nationality isn't soul.

[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty.

I have no nationality, no country.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.

One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god.

I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.

Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

There's not enough of those inclusive projects where I feel like I'm interpreting a human being and not just a statistic or a nationality.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

[On social change:] What I say is that if one country is annexed by another, its nationality is not changed overnight. Social processes are often very, very slow.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

If you are a driver of a team and have a certain set of sponsors, who is the target market for those sponsors? But, of course, it is also a question of nationality.

I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them.

The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

Great wealth is its own nationality.

Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

Whatever we may be or not be to others, to ourselves we are always just ourselves.

Love will work no matter what job i have, what nationality I claim, or what street i live on. It will work even if i kiss a woman. and it does.

There is no greater service than that rendered to one’s nation, no greater glory one can seek than that in the name of one’s people.

The failure of the nation lies in the failure of its citizens.

Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country’s well-being.

The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.

Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one’s view of them.