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“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
― Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“Patriotism is a thing difficult to put into words. It is neither precisely an emotion nor an opinion, nor a mandate, but a state of mind -- a reflection of our own personal sense of worth, and respect for our roots. Love of country plays a part, but it's not merely love. Neither is it pride, although pride too is one of the ingredients.

Patriotism is a commitment to what is best inside us all. And it's a recognition of that wondrous common essence in our greater surroundings -- our school, team, city, state, our immediate society -- often ultimately delineated by our ethnic roots and borders... but not always.

Indeed, these border lines are so fluid... And we do not pay allegiance as much as we resonate with a shared spirit.

We all feel an undeniable bond with the land where we were born. And yet, if we leave it for another, we grow to feel a similar bond, often of a more complex nature. Both are forms of patriotism -- the first, involuntary, by birth, the second by choice.

Neither is less worthy than the other.

But one is earned.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”
― Mike Norton

“We will never know peace and stability in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice exists only where there is fairness and equality -- when every man and country is treated and viewed equally. No country should be given power over another. In addition, no country should be granted privileges that are denied to others. No one country has the authority to decide which country will be embargoed, denied to protect itself, and will be favored based on the weight of their resources. Eliminate the hypocrisy.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“O kraju Å›wiadczÄ… jego ZwierzÄ™ta. Stosunek do ZwierzÄ…t. Jeżeli ludzie zachowujÄ… siÄ™ bestialsko wobec ZwierzÄ…t, nie pomoże im żadna demokracja ani w ogóle nic.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Prowadź swój pÅ‚ug przez koÅ›ci umarÅ‚ych

“for years now there had been no country here but the war.”
― Michael Herr, Dispatches

“In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― Thomas Paine, Rights of Man

“We are notorious for ‘runningâ€� around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon the millions who ‘ranâ€� across bloodied battlefields so that we would have rights to declare, I think we’d do a whole lot less declaring and a whole more appreciating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment. ”
― George Ade

“Rights and duties, sounded more
entertaining than duties and rights.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the music created from the heart and by the wonder of the eyes and ears beholding them in joy. Art and music are the windows of the soul of any country. The greater the art created, the greater the country.”
― Clarrissa Lee Moon

“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

“I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.”
― Dick Cavett

“you might be a readneck ”
― Melissa Ball

“In a country of ideas, consciousness is its' citizen.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Government is a ruling structured thuggery.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people wish they had been there. I am not a good travelling salesman. Countries? Where are they , whatever became of them.
When I was twelve I dreamed of Hongkong. That tedious, commonplace little provincial town! Shops sprouting from every nook and cranny! The Chinese junks pictured on the lids of chocolate boxes used to fascinate me. Junks: sort of chopped-off barges, where the housewives do all their cooking and washing on deck. They even have television. As for the Niagara Falls: water, nothing but water! A dam is more interesting; at least one can occasionally see a big crack at its base, and hope for some excitement.
When one travels, one sees nothing but hotels. Squalid rooms, with iron bedsteads, and a picture of some kind hanging on the wall from a rusty nail, a coloured print of London Bridge or the Eiffel Tower.
One also sees trains, lots of trains, and airports that look like restaurants, and restaurants that look like morgues. All the ports in the world are hemmed in by oil slicks and shabby customs buildings. In the streets of the towns, people keep to the sidewalks, cars stop at red lights. If only one occasionally arrived in a country where women are the colour of steel and men wear owls on their heads. But no, they are sensible, they all have black ties, partings to one side, brassières and stiletto heels. In all the restaurants, when one has finished eating one calls over the individual who has been prowling among the tables, and pays him with a promissory note. There are cigarettes everywhere! There are airplanes and automobiles everywhere.”
― J.M.G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights

“- ¿Qué, se dio bien la noche? - preguntó la mujer. (...) - Tempranito - volvió a decir la mujer.
- ¿Eh?
- Y sereno.
- Eso es lo que hay.
- ¿Cayó algo?
- Relente.”
― José Manuel Caballero Bonald

“The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You are worse than a corrupt politician if you don't vote, because tomorrow. You will be the first to complain about bad service delivery and how bad the country is being run by bad leaders and criminals.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“If people just sit back and watch while things get bad in a country, that country will go from bad to worse!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The unmatched Word of God conveys His covenant from century to century, from country to country, from city to city, and from victory to victory.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes

“A country starting as a democracy but slowly transforms into an oligarchy.”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“Never forget: The leaders you choose are the leaders who shape your future and your country.”
― George Stamatis

“Without a family, Ma Lin devoted himself to his work. He continued to shun ideology but occasionally caught himself wondering about the WHY of things he did in his work. Often he felt, and justifiably so, that something he had done had benefited the state or preserved someone's life or safety. Other times, like now, in this room with an old woman who knew nothing important and had curled up to die, he felt old and tired and worn out.”
― David Ball, China Run

“He who leaves his Country does violate all Laws.


legally or illegally !”
― Dipti Dhakul, Quote: +/-

“If you want to do something for the nation you should first improve yourself, every person should do this, the society will be like what we are.”
― Vishesh Panthi

“The best and first thing we all can do for our nation is to improve ourselves and educate ourselves, every person can do this.

03/03/2025”
― Vishesh Panthi

“Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one’s country is to wish harm to one’s neighbors”
― Voltaire

“Economic crimes may feel bloodless, but they destroy livelihoods, harm the poor, and weaken the country.”
― Dipti Dhakul