Quotes about Nationality

Economist, Lawyer, Military Commander, Founding Father of the United States

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

Citizenry - Enjoying - Individual - Nationality - People - Privilege - Purpose - Right - Sameness

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

The Gross National Product includes the destruction of the redwoods and the death of Lake Superior. It grows with the production of napalm and missiles and nuclear warheads... It includes... the broadcasting of television programs which glorify violence to sell goods to our children.

Children - Death - Destructiveness - Glory - Good - Growing - Nationality - Product - Production - Programming - Sales - Violence

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Thomas Paine

Philosopher, Founding Father of the United States

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Appearance - Christianity - Enslavement - Nationality

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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

Capitalism - Ethnicity - Making - Man - Nationalism - Nationality - Politics - State - Together - Unions

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

Let us meditate until we perceive the Infinite Christ reigning in our own hearts. Let us learn to love those who love us not; and to forgive those who do ill against us. Let us break all our mental boundaries of color, creed, and nationality, and receive all - even our inanimate and animal brothers - in the endless, all embracing arms of our Christ Consciousness. This will be a true and fitting celebration of the coming of Jesus Christ to this earth.

Animals - Arms - Boundaries - Celebration - Colors - Consciousness - Earth - Forgiving - Illness - Nationality - Perception

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Salman Rushdie

Politician, Novelist, Novelist

I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.

America - Citizenry - Distinction - Feelings - Nationality - Real - Thinking

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Jane Goodall

Writer, Scientist, Primatologist

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Animals - Beginner - Learning - Living - Nationality - Opportunity - Parks - World

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!

Anguish - Atheism - Belief - Finding - Nationality - World

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

America - Compassion - Countries - Devotion - Exception - Learning - Life - Making - Nationality - Product - Wisdom - Wit

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Marie Curie

Chemist, Physicist

The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.

Death - Discovery - Feelings - Nationality - Science

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Politician, Leader, Military Commander

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

Countries - Europe - Nationality - Possibility - State - Unions

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

Eternity - Fighting - Holiness - Linguistics - Meaning - Misery - Mother - Nationality - School - Struggle

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Robert Kiyosaki

Writer, Author, Investor

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold.

Accept - Border - Market - Nationality - People - Politics - Religion - Transcendence - World

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Stephen King

Writer

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

Charity - Debt - Education - Nationality - Repairing - Sickness

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer, Political Activist

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

Nationality - Wellness - Whole

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Rutherford B. Hayes

Actress, President, 19th U.S. President

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

Aid - Authority - Education - End - Freedom - Government - Liberalism - Making - Nationality - Permanence - Rest - School - State - Support - Universal

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries.

Love - Mystery - Nationality

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Robert Kennedy

Actor, Politician, Former U.S. Senator

President Kennedy's election was such an enlargement. It expanded religious freedom to include the highest office in the land. President Kennedy's administration was such an enlargement. It advanced the day when the bars of intolerance against all minority groups will be lifted, not only for the presidency, but for all aspects of our national life.

Advancement - Day - Election - Freedom - Intolerance - Life - Nationality - President - Religion - Willing

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

There is no plausible theory under which the record of the Pentagon Papers can be interpreted as relating to the national defense.

Interpretation - Nationality - Records

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Alexander Hamilton

Economist, Lawyer, Military Commander, Founding Father of the United States

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

Blessing - Debt - Nationality - Willing

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