Quotes About Nationality

The Jew has always been a people with definite racial characteristics and never a religion.

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.

If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin")

In an Italian restaurant we expect to find spaghetti in tomato sauce; in Polish and Irish restaurants lots of potatoes; in an Argentinian restaurant we can choose between dozens of kinds of beefsteaks; in an Indian restaurant hot chillies are incorporated into just about everything; and the highlight at any Swiss café is thick hot chocolate under an alp of whipped cream. But none of these foods is native to those nations.

En una encuesta tras otra, los costarricenses informan de niveles mucho más elevados de satisfacción vital que los singapurenses.

More and more people believe that all of humankind is the legitimate source of political authority, rather than the members of a particular nationality, and that safeguarding human rights and protecting the interests of the entire human species should be the guiding light of politics.

I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.

Lately, when asked, I have tended to say that I'm Mexican. I like the word because it still makes so many people flinch.

We are Americans when we go to war, and when we return, we are Mexicans.

It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American.

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.

The thing is, is that every terrorist attack we've had since 9/11 has been legal immigration.

Remember that you are an Englishman, and have consequently won first prize in the lottery of life.

I never had a country, never had the choice; I was born into one.

The count said in careful English, "That was perhaps not, as you English say, very sporting." "Games are played to win," Cameron said. "And we're Scottish.

Airports should all belong to the same country. The country of Crappacia. Or Bleakovania. Or Suckitan.

Zola'n?n italyan kökeni bile bir aÅŸa??lama nedeni olur. Bir gazeteci Yar?-Ä°talyan, çeyrek Yunan, çeyrek Frans?z, üç-dört kez k?rma, hiç de güzel bir insanl?k örneÄŸi deÄŸil! diye yazar.

Birthright citizenship remains an eloquent statement about the nature of American society and a repudiation of a long history of equating citizenship with whiteness.

Le rêve secret de la plupart des migrants, c'est qu'on les prenne pour des enfants du pays.

You say your city the way some Americans say this is their country. You never feel right saying that - my country. For some reason looking Mexican means you can't be American.