56 Compatriots Quotes
Following is our list of the most famous compatriots quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational compatriots quotes. Hopefully, these compatriots quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your compatriots knowledge!
Famous Compatriots Quotes
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. — Abraham Lincoln
In comradeship is danger countered best. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is something that I have in common with every citizen of Russia, the love for our motherland. — Vladimir Putin
When the enemy enthusiastically embraces you, and the fellow countrymen bitterly reject you, it is hard not to wonder if you are, in fact, a traitor. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world. — Savitri Devi
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We have met the enemy, and they are ours. — Oliver Perry
Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame. — Rose O'Neal Greenhow
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. — Seneca
Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer. — Tacitus
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which. — Mark Twain
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. — Joan D. Chittister
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? — Pablo Casals
The enemies of the country and of freedom of the people have always denounced as bandits those who sacrifice themselves for the noble causes of the people. — Emiliano Zapata
Short Compatriots Quotes
- The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act. — Lawrence Halprin
- Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. — Richard Francis Burton
- I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering. — Norodom Sihamoni
- Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots. — Michel de Montaigne
- All my compatriots are asses compared to me. — Paul Cezanne
People Writing About Compatriots
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Abraham Lincoln |
1225 | 20600 |
 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
1772 | 14221 |
.jpg) Vladimir Putin |
737 | 3389 |
 Ursula K. Le Guin |
495 | 2365 |
 Savitri Devi |
14 | 151 |
 Alfred Lord Tennyson |
477 | 4391 |
More Compatriots Quotes
With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise! — Qiu Jin
Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots. — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly mother. I consider it my duty to be with my compatriots in this sublime and difficult moment. — Pope John Paul II
A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction. — James A. Baldwin
Safeguarding the interests of our Taiwan compatriots and expanding their well-being is the mainland's oft-repeated pledge and solemn promise of the new leaders of China's Communist Party central committee. — Xi Jinping
Our freedom is also incomplete, dear compatriots, as long as we are denied our security by criminals who prey on our communities, who rob our businesses and undermine our economy, who ply their destructive trade in drugs in our schools, and who do violence against our women and children. — Nelson Mandela
Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term prosperity and stability in Hong Kong and safeguard the fundamental interests of the country. — Jiang Zemin
In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots. — Norodom Sihamoni
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather 'What can I and my compatriots do through government' to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? — Milton Friedman
The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots — Nelson Mandela
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots. — Emile M. Cioran
For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged. — Dee Dee Myers
It would be a tragic mistake for us out here to imagine that Bush represents the hearts and the minds of the majority of your countrymen. Many of your black and other compatriots must be just as anguished as we are. — Breyten Breytenbach
During the election, I traveled all across the country. I like my country and the French. I love talking with them and convincing them. It is my job each day to fight for my compatriots. But also to not succumb to demagoguery and lies or agree to favors. — Emmanuel Macron
I try to use my privilege to deconstruct from inside the racist, homophobic, heterocentric house, as an ally, while compatriot tools dismantle the patriarch's house. I do this by pushing the boundaries of what makes a poem and what makes an essay. My tools are blur, cross, pulverize, confront, remember. — James Allen Hall
NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of the world as will and representation — Arthur Schopenhauer
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. — Jack Schwartz
I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?' — Arianna Huffington
He [Hugo Chavez] put poverty at the heart of political debate. Rightly so, given the country's immense inequality and poverty. He invested heavily in social programs such as literacy, health clinics, and education. He promoted Venezuela's indigenous culture and urged compatriots to take pride in its pre-Columbian history. He called time on the US treating Latin America as its backyard. — Rory Carroll
I believe that it is of the utmost importance that we all should feel and inculcate among the people and circulate amongst them what I call a sense of compatriotism. We should all feel that we are all nationals of one country, whatever our race, colour, creed, or sect. — A. D. Patel
My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things. — John Legend
Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad. — Ruben Aguilar
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do. — Nick Hornby
Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against "freedom of print," it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature — Sylvia Brownrigg
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Now I want to use money in a good way. I make foundations back home in Russia, I have sponsored vaccinations for more than one million children in my homeland and I have founded scholarships in the names of my great Russian compatriots - Oistrakh, Richter, Gilels, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Schnittke. — Mstislav Rostropovich
Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond. — Michel de Montaigne
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights. — Umair Haque
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of compatriots quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about compatriots to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of compatriots quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
Embed HTML Link
Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage