(17 quotes found)
“Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.”
Charles de Gaulle
“The love for the motherland isn't but a desperate futile try to relive, and revive, fading childhood memories.”
Yuval K.
“The value of one moment of pleasure cannot be placed in the whole history of statehood.”
Ilkin Santak
“The destiny of my state is not my destiny.”
“The state exists at our expense, and we do not live at the expense of the state. For this reason we do not have any duty to the motherland, but it has duties to us in the face of the state.”
“Duty of a citizen to the low-quality state is betraying it. Because low-quality state has already betrayed its citizens.”
“To resolve the Taiwan issue and achieve the final reunification of the motherland is the common aspiration of all Chinese at home and abroad.”
Wu Bangguo