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Nationality isn't soul ... -- Bernard Malamud
Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation. -- Lajos Kossuth
You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! -- John Green
I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill. -- Socrates
Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality. -- A. C. Cuza
Nationality was - and is - far less a divide than age... because "everything is global, man!" -- Ben Dreyfuss
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual. -- Rolf Hochhuth
Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality. -- Walt Whitman
I'll say American for now. I really have no preference, though. Nationality is nothing. It's all about the girl - but she has to be curvy! -- Daniel Radcliffe
Our true nationality is mankind. -- H. G. Wells
Terrorism has no nationality or religion. -- Vladimir Putin
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. -- Edward Hopper
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. -- Brendan Behan
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality. -- Alan Furst
We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity. -- Mahmoud Darwish
People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter. -- Irena Sendler
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism. -- David Bailey
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. -- Marvin Bower
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other. -- Lena Horne
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. -- Goswami Kriyananda
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
Science is the one culture that's truly global - protons, proteins and Pythagoras's Theorem are the same from China to Peru. It should transcend all barriers of nationality. It should straddle all faiths, too. -- Martin Rees
It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not. -- Alfred Nobel
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. -- Condoleezza Rice
The world of science and the world of literature have much in common. Each is an international club, helping to tie mankind together across barriers of nationality, race and language. I have been doubly lucky, being accepted as a member of both. -- Freeman Dyson
We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. -- Duane Chapman
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. -- Mario Monti
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be. -- ASAP Rocky
The difference between a nation and a nationality is clear, but it is not always observed. Likeness between members is the essence of nationality, but the members of a nation may be very different. A nation may be composed of many nationalities, as some of the most successful nations are. -- Louis D. Brandeis
My culture comes from everywhere. I'm sick of this notion of nationality, that if you're brought up in the same city or same country you're the same. Even three kids brought up in the same family with the same genes, they are not the same. Just consider a human a human. -- Marjane Satrapi
The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor
Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Racism and all the other 'isms' grow from primitive tribalism, the instinctive hostility against those of another tribe, race, religion, nationality, class or whatever. You are a lucky child if your parents taught you to accept diversity. -- Roger Ebert
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
Motherhood doesn't have a nationality -- Melinda Cross
I have no nationality, no country. -- China Machado
Great wealth is its own nationality. -- Velda Johnston
Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality. -- Antonia White
Great principles, great ideals know no nationality. -- Marcus Garvey
The best artists transcend nationality and identity. -- Rula Jebreal
Canada is free and freedom is its nationality, -- Wilfrid Laurier
If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Kindness is a universal language regardless of age, nationality or religion. -- Alex Ferguson
Being proud of your nationality is like congratulating yourself for inheriting money. -- Dov Davidoff
In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality. -- Tania Bruguera
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. -- Emile M. Cioran
I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality... -- John Hume
Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality. -- Arthur Rothstein
Tod's customers - whatever their nationality - want the very best things in life. -- Diego Della Valle
Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt. -- Emma Lazarus
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. -- George Orwell
One nationality supresses another. One religion claimsto be the exclusive way to truth or god. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British. -- Maajid Nawaz
Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If Glenn Hoddle had been any other nationality, he would have had 70 or 80 caps for England. -- John Barnes
We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially.It's our common humanity that defines us. -- Naveen Andrews
Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity. -- Johann Gottfried Herder
I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality. -- Philip Vera Cruz
We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality. -- Greg Giraldo
I think that there's only one nationality and one language in the sport, and you call it performance. -- Wladimir Klitschko
For our first date we went Dutch. We would have gone another nationality, but they are the tallest. -- Jarod Kintz
Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender. -- Rebecca Solnit
Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. -- Will Self
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality. -- Gore Vidal
The constitution of Soviet Russia must insure equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, creed, race, or nationality. -- Vladimir Lenin
I love to make people dance; it's a way of bringing people together regardless of religion, nationality, sexuality, belief. -- David Guetta
Science is an enterprise that can only flourish if it puts the truth ahead of nationality, ethnicity, class and color. -- John Charles Polanyi
Before our race, nationality, or religion, we are all human beings. Let's celebrate our differences and not fight over them. -- Rosie Fellner
Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk. -- Margaret Atwood
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality She was obsessed with getting a nationality -- Patrick Modiano
There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident. -- Franz Grillparzer
There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality. -- Woodrow Wilson
So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another -- Charles James
For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality. -- Meir Soloveichik
You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone. -- Ken Loach
I don't have any religion. I'm Hebrew by nationality. My religion is just God. I have no religion, I just believe in the Most High. -- Killah Priest
It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love. -- Enrique Iglesias
We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. -- Louis Riel
I don't hold it against the men who beat me because undoubtedly there are some ruffians of every nationality and the English are not exceptions. -- Oswald Pohl
I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich. -- William Saroyan
The current transgender movement is composed of a great number of factions, divided by those old favorites of class, race, age, language, region, and nationality. -- Kate Bornstein
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
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. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. -- John Amos Comenius
[Albert] Camus' was born in Algeria of French nationality, and was assimilated into the French colony, although the French colonists rejected him absolutely because of his poverty. -- Catherine Camus
Everybody, be they female, whatever your religion, whatever your nationality, you're an individual, and if you perform well, we want you, and if you don't, we don't. -- Gerry Harvey
You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling. -- Georg Baselitz
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest. -- Ban Ki-moon
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world. -- Igor Babailov
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen -- Cecil Rhodes
[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
Whether we are rich or poor, educated or uneducated, whatever our nationality, colour, social status or ideology may be, the purpose of our lives is to be happy -- Dalai Lama
Those who say that we want nationality, they are standing against Islam....We have no use for the nationalists. Moslems are useful for us. Islam is against nationality.... -- Ruhollah Khomeini
If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does. -- Geert Wilders
A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man -- Frederick Douglass
Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years -- FM-2030
It seems to me that the Swedish Academy of Science may be qualifying for the Nobel Peace Prize. It recognises no nationality; it discourages unworthy national feeling and prejudice. -- Charles Glover Barkla
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side. -- William Wiley
Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side. -- William Wiley
In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality. -- Karl Marx
There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. -- Goswami Kriyananda
I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality. -- Paul Farmer
I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion. -- Emma Watson
The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws. -- Ulysses S. Grant
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
I have no sentiments for nationality or for soil. But I grew up in Israel, so those things are in my blood, and I want to be part of Israeli culture. -- Mili Avital
It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. -- Ellen G. White
Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades. -- Walter Kasper
We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love's nationality is separate from all other religions, The lover's religion and nationality is the Beloved (God). The lover's cause is separate from all other causes Love is the astrolabe of God's mysteries. -- Rumi
When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets. -- James Joyce
Race, blood, lineage, and nationality don't matter; they're just the way that small minds keep score. All that matters about blood is that it's warm and that it beats through a loving heart. -- Scott Simon
The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people. -- Richard J. Daley
No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time. -- Tommy Gibbons

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