Country Quotes

There are two groups of people: Herds and individual clever people. Because herds have numerical superiority, individual clever people remain weak in determining the right fate for the country! The solution: Disperse the herds, augment the individuals!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If one part of a country is watching football match while the other part of the same country is under heavy attacks by the rockets, then we can say that there is no nation in that country, but there is only crowd of people!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

One should never fight for a country. One should fight, if one has to, for what one believes to be right. A country is only as good as its leading citizens.

~ Garry Douglas Kilworth

When we are telling people to depend on favor rather than qualification, we are actually preparing a ground for our country to collapse.

~ Sunday Adelaja

No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human.

~ Sixeye

It's like that quote: 'If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.' The choice between a duty or a principle, you know?

~ Zadie Smith

(ghost of)ACHILLES: How can I force obedience on this? In other times I've used the fear of death to make a woman bow herself to me. If not the fear of her own death, then fear for someone else, a husband or a child. How can I bend this woman to my will?(ghost of)POLYXENA: I think I will not bend.IPHIGENIA: You see, it's as we've tried to tell you, Great Achilles. Women are no good to you dead.

~ Sheri S. Tepper

It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

~ Sunday Adelaja

The country has turned its loyal inhabitants into wanderers similar to the survivors of an apocalypse.

~ Rami Ollaik

I wonder what it felt to move to a country where you didn't grow up. I had thought about that often since my sister got married. Do you become a character in a story native to that land, or do you, somewhere in your heart, want to return to your homeland.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Canada is a free country, after all.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and especially the big chains, it's a shame that they pay their employees minimum wage and no more than that. What that really says is: 'We're paying you minimum wage, because we're not allowed to pay you any less.

~ Christina Engela

...It is a proud privilege to be a soldier – a good soldier … [with] discipline, self-respect, pride in his unit and his country, a high sense of duty and obligation to comrades and to his superiors, and a self confidence born of demonstrated ability.

~ George S. Patton Jr.

Serving my country was a life-changing experience for me. It was during those years that I realized the importance of commitment, dedication, honor, and discipline. I have never laughed so much; nor have I ever prayed so much. I made life-long friends. The leaders and heroes I served with helped shape me into the man I am today. I feel honored to have been a part of such a great tradition and grateful to others who have walked the same path. Thank you!

~ Steve Maraboli

The day to day corruption that is carried out everywhere in the country, from the streets to the offices are as detrimental to the nation as any other form of corruption.

~ Sunday Adelaja

The level of corruption in a country is determined by the value systems of that country.

~ Sunday Adelaja

My mind mends my motives and my notion navigates my natives,for we all are made of soil-our corrupted soil.

~ Munia Khan

How long have you been away from the country? Laruja asked Ibarra.Almost seven years.Then you have probably forgotten all about it.Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.

~ José Rizal

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

~ Giuseppe Mazzini

America Is A GunEngland is a cup of tea. France, a wheel of ripened brie.Greece, a short, squat olive tree.America is a gun.Brazil is football on the sand.Argentina, Maradona's hand.Germany, an oompah band.America is a gun.Holland is a wooden shoe.Hungary, a goulash stew.Australia, a kangaroo.America is a gun.Japan is a thermal spring.Scotland is a highland fling.Oh, better to be anythingthan America as a gun.

~ Brian Bilston

To criticize one's country is to do it a service... Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism--a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals and national adulation.

~ J. William Fulbright (Senator)

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith.

~ J. William Fulbright (Senator)

People tell me that I should become a politician but I say no I want to do something good for the nation.

~ Amit Abraham

I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.

~ Charlotte Brontë

A bright man of conviction and action is a beacon to his country,but a flash light to the scurrying of inaction, ego, and insecurity of lesser men.

~ Daniel S. Green

We can overcome division only by refusing to be divided.

~ Raymond Williams

The astounding natural beauty of the USA is offset by its extremely poor social security system that is clearly apparent when driving around the country.

~ Steven Magee

India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

~ Virchand Gandhi

India has many customs and rituals that may seem bizarre to anyone not used to its distinctive culture. It is a strange combination of being a young nation as well as an ancient country.

~ Hanadi Falki

To my countrymenwho gave unto themselves the constitution but not the ability to keep it,who inherited resplendent heritage but not the wisdom to cherish it,who suffer and endure in pain without the perception of their potential.

~ Nani Palkhiwala

So I pulled the sun screen down and squinted and put the throttle to the floor. And kept on moving west. For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the oldfield pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the letter saying: Flee, all is discovered. IT is where you go when you look down at the blade in your hand and see the blood on it. It is where you go when you are told that you are a bubble on the tide of empire. It is where you go when you hear that thar's gold in them-thar hills. It is where you go to grow up with the country. It is where you go to spend your old age. Or it is just where you go.

~ Robert Penn Warren

He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

~ Melina Marchetta

No holidays, no country.

~ Toba Beta

On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.

~ Christopher Moore

Government is a ruling structured thuggery.

~ Toba Beta

Every country has a cultural legacy and religious practices for reasons that I don’t believe fall under the category of superstition, something that a religious scholar should understand.

~ Santosh Kalwar