Quotes About Belonging

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.

Patriotism is the admission that people who share a land, a place, and a history have a special obligation to that place and to each other.

Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

I will never leave China, unless I am forced to. Because China is mine. I will not leave something that belongs to me in the hands of people I do not trust.

Our country is wherever we are well off. [Lat., Patria est, ubicunque est bene.]

Patria est communis omnium parens. Our country is the common parent of all.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

I hate all the loathsome nonsense that goes with patriotism.

Actual patriotism has to do with loving a place enough to try and improve it.

Pop stars exist in a different space, one not necessarily tied to a patriotism. So Rihanna is everyone's. She doesn't just belong to America, even though she's a creation of America.

My country, right or wrong, but still my country.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own my native land!

People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one

Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.

Patriotism can results in racism

The land is always there...it is you who has to return

I am not a Virginian but an American.

My Blood flows towards India, bcoz India is in my Hear

You can take a my body out of Nepal but you can never take my soul and Heart from a Nepal .

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.