Fatherland Quotes

• A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Murder, States, Ready

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• I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

  James Joyce

  Life, Art, Believe

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

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• What we have to fight for...is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the Creator.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Fighting, People

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.221, eKitap Projesi

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• One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Doe, Language

  "Aveux et anathemes (Anathemas and Admirations)". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

  Tycho Brahe

  Worry, Too Much, Scientist

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• The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany.

  Friedrich List

  Mother, Children, Germany

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• Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Murderer, Suspicious

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• So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Havana

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• I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Heart, People, Warm

  Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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

  Gustav Heinemann

  Germany, Difficult

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• If these hands, used to fighting, would be acceptable to His Holiness, we most thankfully dedicate them to the service of him who deserves so well of the Church and of the fatherland.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Fighting, Hands, Church

  Giuseppe Garibaldi, Jessie White Mario (1971). “Autobiography of Giuseppe Garibaldi: Supplement”

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• And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

  Tycho Brahe

  Science, Men, Sky

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• Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

  Walter Ulbricht

  People, German History, Needs

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• My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

  Wilhelm Frick

  People, Whole Life, Whole

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• [America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.

  Theodore Parker

  Mother, Betrayal, Blood

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• Once again the songs of the fatherland roared to the heavens along the endless marching columns, and for the last time the Lord's grace smiled on His ungrateful children.

  Adolf Hitler

  Song, Religious, Children

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

  Helen Keller

  War, Looks, Feuds

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• He is a poor patriot whose patriotism does not enable him to understand how all men everywhere feel about their altars and their hearthstones, their flag and their fatherland.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  4th Of July, Patriotic, Men

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• Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood.

  Pietro Aretino

  Grew, Manhood

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• [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

  Children, Generations, Burning

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.646, Seven Stories Press

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• First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

  Sitting Bull

  Firsts, Kill Me, Possession

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• War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals are enemies only by accident, not as men, nor even as citizens, but as soldiers; not as members of the fatherland, but as its defenders. Finally, any State can only have other States, and not men, as enemies, inasmuch as it is impossible to fix a true relation between things of different natures.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Men, Soldier

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• ...Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning.

  Anders Chydenius

  Littles, Merit

  "For What Reason do so Many Swedes Emigrate Every Year?". Book by Anders Chydenius, 1765.

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• My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Firsts, Claims

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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