Quotes and Sayings about Nationality
"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
- Brendan Behan
(Related: People, Irish, Nationality)
"People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills."
- Marvin Bower
(Related: Education, People, Performance, Nationality, Personality)
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
- Emile M. Cioran
(Related: Nationality)
"Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion."
- John Comenius
(Related: Religion, Consideration, End, Humanity, Language, Nationality, Selfishness, Welfare)
"Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved."
- Herbert Croly
(Related: Legal, Consequences, Country, Democracy, Fight, Followers, Nationality)
"The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people."
- Richard J. Daley
(Related: People, Nationality, Party)
"Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy."
- Benjamin Disraeli
(Related: Independence, Nationality, Race)
"I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality."
- Paul Farmer
(Related: Class, Culture, Nationality, Race, Reason, Therapy, Will)
"But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience."
- Shelby Foote
(Related: Experience, Quality, People, Character, Army, Nationality, Trade)
"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Art, Nationality, Question, Value)
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
- Lena Horne
(Related: Nationality, Respect)
"Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt."
- Emma Lazarus
(Related: Language, Nationality)
"Reference to the territory and total disregard for the nationality of the companies is of course the best guarantee that competition assessment remain just that and doesn't get affected by trade or other considerations."
- Mario Monti
(Related: Competition, Nationality, Trade)
"Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do."
- Mario Monti
(Related: Justice, Nationality)
"It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not."
- Alfred Nobel
(Related: Consideration, Nationality, Prizes)
"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
- George William Russell
(Related: Ireland, Nationality, Spirit, Spiritual, Will, World)
"No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Religion, People, America, Nationality)
"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."
- Janet Suzman
(Related: Judaism, Nationality, Sense)
"Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing."
- Janet Suzman
(Related: Patriotism, Being, Nationality, Self, Sense)
"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."
- Harry S. Truman
(Related: Thought, People, Action, Direction, Nationality, Race, Right, Will)
"There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others."
- J. Donald Walters
(Related: Food, Love, Appreciation, Kindness, Language, Nationality, Support)
"Our true nationality is mankind."
- H. G. Wells
(Related: Mankind, 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."
- William Wiley
(Related: Family, Mother, Influence, Irish, Nationality)