Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist. Votes: 4
Lawrence DurrellMy heart does sometimes bleed for those who are hurting in my own country and abroad. Votes: 4
George McGovernIf you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake. Votes: 4
Vladimir PutinAlmost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country Votes: 3
Lawrence FerlinghettiEvery man loves and admires his own country because it produced him. Votes: 3
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonMy affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind Votes: 3
Thomas JeffersonI will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California. Votes: 3
Douglas MacArthurMy own country's record on human rights for gay people is far from perfect. Votes: 3
Hillary ClintonIf one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries. Votes: 3
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTo be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country. Votes: 3
Thomas Wentworth HigginsonIf you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else. Votes: 3
Alaa Al AswanyThe Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country. Votes: 3
Mahatma GandhiIt's lovely to be recognized in your own country, but I feel that there's more. Votes: 3
Tessanne ChinLet's get unemployed Americans off the welfare and back to work in their own country. Votes: 3
Donald TrumpA prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house. Votes: 3
Matthew McConaugheyWhat I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country. Votes: 3
Samuel JohnsonEveryone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country. Votes: 3
Michel de MontaigneWhen you drop bombs on the enemy, you drop those same bombs on yourself, your own country. Votes: 3
Nhat HanhI have absolute respect for Israel and people in Israel who are critical of their own country, Votes: 3
Antonio Munoz MolinaIf you are not able to provide security for your own country, how can you guarantee liberties? Votes: 3
Viktor OrbanThere's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country? Votes: 3
Jon VoightI think it's in the hands of each head of state: the future of peace in his own country. Votes: 3
Oscar AriasAs far as the novel is concerned in my own country, I think it's in a pretty healthy state. Votes: 3
William GoldingI feel that by getting rich in the way I did, I think my own example has hurt my own country. Votes: 3
Charlie MungerTo kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.' Votes: 3
Edgar MitchellA steady patriot of the world alone, The friend of every country but his own. Votes: 2
George CanningEvery country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies. Votes: 2
Yusuf HamiedAny private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government. Votes: 2
Bidzina IvanishviliCosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliThe people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonIn a country where only men are encouraged, one must be one's own inspiration. Votes: 0
Tegla LoroupeNo one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerMen love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own. Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerThis country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault. Votes: 0
Sam HuffEngland is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. Votes: 0
George OrwellAny private security is a joke in a country where youre up against your own government. Votes: 0
Bidzina IvanishviliWe're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports. Votes: 0
Claudio ReynaDonald Trump abuses his power, games the system, puts his own interests ahead of the country's. Votes: 0
Hillary ClintonIt is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it. Votes: 0
Diodorus SiculusNo one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation. Votes: 0
Daisaku IkedaNo one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together. Votes: 0
Barack ObamaNapoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. Votes: 0
David McCulloughSometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own. Votes: 0
Terry Tempest WilliamsI think it's wrong that only one percent of the people should own ninety percent of the country. Votes: 0
Sally WentworthEvery citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. Votes: 0
Nick MancusoA patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being. Votes: 0
Adrienne RichCountry music is not a formula it's a music with its own soul and I'm all about saving that soul! Votes: 0
Sammy Kershaw