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  • 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.

  • OK, well maybe I have to get back to Judaism. In the sense that if I look at me and my forebears forever stretching back to I don't know, whenever there's no sense of place and therefore no sense of nationality.

    Forever   House   Looks  
  • A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

  • The most interesting acquaintanceship I have struck up here is that of Colonel Lapinski. He is without doubt the cleverest Pole - besides being an homme d'action [man of action] - that I have ever met. His sympathies are all on the German side, though in manners and speech he is also a Frenchman. He cares nothing for the struggle of nationalities and only knows the racial struggle. He hates all Orientals, among whom he numbers Russians Turks, Greeks, Armenians, etc., with equal impartiality.... His aim now is to raise a German legion in London.

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

    Thinking   Ideas   Doe  
  • Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

  • We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

    Strong   War   Fighting  
    H. H. Asquith's Address to the House of Commons on the declaration of war with Germany, api.parliament.uk. August 6, 1914.
  • 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.

    Men   Speaks Out   Enough  
    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.319, Courier Corporation
  • Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

    Antonia White (1980). “Frost in May”
  • There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

    Race   Class   Ideas  
    "Will Self". Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.
  • Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God.

    Men   Religion   Tests  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”
  • For He hath prepared for them a City! Hallelujah? He's got a City for you & me where you're not going to have any passport nor visa problems, they're not going to have to make sure you've got enough money to stay there awhile, it's YOUR town, your Hometown in Heaven, praise God? And they're all going to be your people! We're just going to be one nationality of one nation, ...we just haven't found the place yet, we haven't gotten there yet!

    Cities   People   Heaven  
  • African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't want to be beat. They don't want to be shot down in their neighborhoods, whether it's by police officers or people who live there.

    "Newark’s mayor on solutions he is using to change his city making it a better place for all". "PBS NewsHour" with Charlayne Hunter-Gault, www.pbs.org. September 29, 2016.
  • So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

    John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.251, VM eBooks
  • There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

    Speech in New York, 12 October 1915, in 'Works', Memorial edition (1925) vol. 20, p. 457
  • Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilized nations.

    Moses Hess (1943). “The Revival of Israel: Rome and Jerusalem, the Last Nationalist Question”, p.49, U of Nebraska Press
  • I've played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented. It just increases your possibilities of work because, if people know you can do just about anything, then you're going to get more offers. That's what I want to do.

    "Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Talks THE THING and BULLET TO THE HEAD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 13, 2011.
  • I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief.

    People   Together   Way  
    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
  • Irrespective of nationality, soldiers are always open to the same discomfort and to the same comradeship the world over. I'll make things easy for you if you make things easy for me. That is, after all the unwritten law of the barracks.

    Law   Soldier   World  
    "The Loser: A Novel". Book by Peter Ustinov, 1960.
  • I think that nationality has no relation to that which gives rise to manga. Even among the Japanese, manga creators are making their creations everyday reflecting their own individuality, with none being the same. What is important isn't the differences between the creators but their love for manga.

    "Something About Shojo". Interview with Coco Masters, content.time.com. August 10, 2006.
  • Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins.

    Color   Cities   Racism  
  • In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.

  • 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!

    "The Idiot". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Part IV, Chapter 7, p. 626, 1869.
  • Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

    Richard's Cork Leg (1961).
  • For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

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

    Race   Class   Doe  
    Rebecca Solnit (2014). “Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays”, p.16, Granta Books
  • An important Italian critic once gave Fistful of Dollars a very bad review when it came out. Then he went to the university here [Rome] with Once Upon a Time in America. We showed it to 10,000 students. And while the man was speaking that day to the students, with me present, he said, "I have to state one thing. When I gave that review about Sergio's films, I should have taken into account that on Sergio Leone's passport, there should not be written whether the nationality is Italian or anything else. What should be written is: 'Nationality: Cinema.' "

    Taken   Italian   Men  
    Interview with Marlaine Glicksman, www.americansuburbx.com. September 1987.
  • [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.

  • A man who thinks of himself as belonging to a particular national group in America has not yet become an American. And the man who goes among you to trade upon your nationality is no worthy son to live under the Stars and Stripes.

    Stars   Son   Men  
    Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

    George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.275, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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