Nationality Quotes - Page 12

• The women I like, no matter what nationality, all seem to have more or less the same qualities. Perhaps this is because one goes looking for them - that is, you like that type of woman and then look for her.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Quality, Looks, Matter

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• There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Israel, Identity, Tension

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• Sex and Love are two words that anyone can relate to, no matter the nationality or age.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Sex, Two, Age

  Source: www.enriqueiglesias.com.br

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• I never think of people's nationality too much. I always look at everybody the same. It's impossible for me to just say one group of people over separate groups of people. Maybe it's because I was raised in New York City which is this melting pot. Everybody was always the same and the whole point of my whole film existence was to say that we're just one race.

  Vin Diesel

  New York, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I?' 'Who do I belong to?' But when I was still quite young, I decided that belonging is a tough process in life, and I'd better say I belonged to myself and the world rather than belonging to one nationality or another.

  Hiam Abbass

  Teenager, Issues, Identity

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• But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Loyalty, Men, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I don't care what someone believes. I don't care what nationality they are. But if someone wants to get off drugs, I can help them. If someone wants to learn how to read, I can help them. If someone doesn't want to be a criminal anymore, I can give them tools that can better their life.

  Tom Cruise

  Believe, Giving, Drug

  "Actor Tom Cruise Opens Up about his Beliefs in the Church of Scientology". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 27, 2005.

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• The antagonism between nationalities will lose all its acuteness on the day when neither the iniquitous tendency to oppression and domination, nor the perpetual danger of the threatening preparations for war will exist. ("L'antagonisme entre les nationalités perdra toute son acuité le jour où n'existera plus la tendance inique à l'oppression et à la domination, ni le perpétuel danger des menaçants préparatifs de guerre. », Fr. ")

  African Spir

  War, Son, Preparation

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 54), 1937.

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• We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Growing Up, Selfish, Ambition

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.

  Chittaranjan Das

  Country, Father, Government

  "Collected Works of Deshbandhu" by Manindra Dutta, 1917.

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• Jewish people have given me all the breaks you can possibly have. But of course, it's wonderful when you feel that your own nationality has made it. It gives you hopes.

  Jamie Farr

  People, Giving, Wonderful

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• Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

  Antonia White

  Catholicism

  Antonia White (1980). “Frost in May”

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• England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

  George Orwell

  Country, England, Ashamed

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

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• Nationality is not a universal human principle but an historical, local fact...Every nation, even a small one, has its own character, its own particular way of life and manner of speaking, feeling, thinking, and behaving. These distinctive features are the essence of nationality, the product of a nation's entire history and conditions of existence. Every nation, like every individual, is of necessity what it is, and has an unquestionable right to be itself. So-called national rights consist precisely of this.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Character, Thinking, Rights

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin, Marshall Shatz (1990). “Bakunin: Statism and Anarchy”, p.46, Cambridge University Press

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• It [the free market] is an organizational way of doing things, featuring openness, which enables millions of people to cooperate and compete without demanding a preliminary clearance of pedigree, nationality, color, race, religion, or wealth. It demands only that each person abide by voluntary principles, that is, by fair play. The free market means willing exchange; it is impersonal justice in the economic sphere and excludes coercion, plunder, theft, protectionism, and other anti-free market ways by which goods and services change hands.

  Leonard Read

  Mean, Play, Race

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• The best artists transcend nationality and identity.

  Rula Jebreal

  Artist, Identity, Best Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs.

  Douglas Hyde

  Heart, Light, World

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• I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

  Philip Vera Cruz

  Thinking, Should, Treated

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• The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for this must in return receive exactly the same rights, not merely legal, but social and spiritual, that other Americans proudly possess. We of the United States belong to a new and separate nationality. We are all Americans and nothing else, and each, without regard to his birthplace, creed, or national origin, is entitled to exactly the same rights as all other Americans.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Country, Giving Up

  Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

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• [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.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Country, Social, Process

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