“At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort.”
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
A Clarification (March 24, 2016)
“At my age one's got to be sincere. Lying's too much effort.”
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.”
Eugene V. Debs (1855–1926) American labor and political leader
"When I Shall Fight," Appeal to Reason (11 September 1915) https://socialistworker.org/2004-1/500/500_06_Zinn.php
“I remain very optimistic about a bright future for my country and its citizens.”
Loujain al-Hathloul (1989) Saudi Arabian activist
A Clarification (March 24, 2016)
John Osborne (1929–1994) English playwright
"A Letter To My Fellow Countrymen", Tribune (18 August 1961)
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant translation: I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude...
1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
W. Mark Felt (1913–2008) Whistleblower who exposed the Watergate scandal
Family press statement by his grandson Nick Jones. (31 May 2005)
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Speech to the NAACP http://www.virginia.edu/uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/gardner.html (29 June 1947).