Fatherland Quotes

“To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.”
― Democritus

“Anyone found not enjoying themselves will be shot.”
― Robert Harris, Fatherland

“And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.”
― Tycho Brahe

“Sometimes I can’t tell if you hate this place or love it.”

“I love its potential. I hate its past. And I don’t like what it is.” She hugs her knees close to her chest. “The way you feel about the place you grew up in is a lot like how you feel about your family.”

“How’s that?”

She thinks about it for a long time. “Like isn’t the same thing as love.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Blades

“Любов к Отчизні де героїть,
Там сила вража не устоїть,
Там грудь сильніша од гармат.”
― Іван Котляревський, Енеїда

“Sentences like the following are found in many mystical and reactionary writings though not as clearly formulated as by Hutten:

''Kulturbolschewismus is nothing new. It is based on a striving which humanity has had since its earliest days: the longing for happiness. It is the eternal nostalgia for paradise on earth . . . The religion of faith is replaced by the religion of pleasure.''

We, on the other hand, ask: Why not happiness on earth? Why should not pleasure be the content of life? If one were to put this question to a general vote, no reactionary ideology could stand up.

The reactionary also recognizes, though in a mystical manner, the connection between mysticism and compulsive marriage and family:

''Because of this responsibility (for the possible consequences of pleasure), society has created the institution of marriage which, as a lifelong union, provides the protective frame for the sexual relationship.''

Right after this, we find the whole register of "cultural values" which, in the framework of reactionary ideology, fit together like the parts of a machine:

''Marriage as a tie, the family as a duty, the fatherland as value of its own, morality as authority, religion as obligation from eternity.''

It would be impossible better to describe the rigidity of human plasma!”
― Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism

“The soul knows full well (even though it pretends to forget many times) that it must render account to the paternal soil. I do not say "fatherland", I say "paternal soil". The paternal soil is something deeper, more modest, more reserved, and is composed of age-old pulverized bones.”
― N. Kazantzakis

“I love and adore my fatherland with such devotion and feeling that prevails and reigns upon all loves.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“What fatherland can the international banker and rag-picker have in common?”
― Pyotr Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread and Other Writings

“He who does not love his mother more than other mothers, and his fatherland more than other fatherlands, loves neither his mother nor his fatherland.”
― Paul Déroulède