Fatherlands Quotes & Sayings

I feel myself always the patriot of all oppressed fatherlands. Nationality is a historic, local fact which, like all real and harmless facts, has the right to claim general acceptance. Every people, like every person, is involuntarily that which it is and therefore has a right to be itself. Nationality is not a principle; it is a legitimate fact, just as individuality is. Every nationality, great or small, has the incontestable right to be itself, to live according to its own nature. This right is simply the corollary of the general principal of freedom. — Mikhail Bakunin

Make love to me
like you know I am better than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I'm new to this. — Buddy Wakefield

For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters. — Benito Mussolini

She has always been somehow weightless, free of the heavy burden of mother tongues, national histories, native soils, homelands, fatherlands, myths, that many of the people around her tote on their backs like a sack of red-hot stones. — Dasa Drndic

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands. — Howard Zinn

I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search. — Friedrich Nietzsche

More than sixty years ago we instituted floating citizenship, so children of mixed parents would not be compelled to choose between several equal fatherlands. It was not the end of our countries. Almost everyone still prefers to have a homeland to love and return to, and the legal possibility of life without a homeland does not destroy the bonds of culture, language, and history which make a homeland home. — Ada Palmer

People feel powerless and useless in the world. But they can buy something. It can give them a sense of value, of power. — Daphne Zuniga

I might go anywhere and do any magic I pleased if I were Peter, not Prunella. — Zen Cho

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. — Gustav Heinemann

By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words — Sunday Adelaja

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere. — Richard Hawley

It is amazing how the light can make us forget we were ever afraid of the dark. — Anonymous