Samuel Beckett Quotes

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

My space expedition has changed my perspective towards people. Looking down at the Earth, we could not see borders or people with different nationalities. It was then that realisation dawned on us that all of us are a group of human beings and citizens of the universe.

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

Above all nations is humanity.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Our true nationality is mankind.

I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

Mankind is a single body and each nation is a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

All the human kind is but one family, dispersed over the face of the whole earth; all men are brothers, and ought to love each other as such.

We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.

We need a wider sense of community because we're all on the same planet.

Governments are different, and philosophies are different, but when it comes down to it, a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher is a schoolteacher. A butcher is a butcher is a butcher. We are people. And we are far more common than we ever imagine.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.

The only real nation is humanity

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet.

In this changing, complex and exciting world with exploding expectations, we need to find some common ground. We need people and ideas to turn to bind us, and Mahatma Gandhi with his message of oneness for mankind is one of them.

The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other.

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.

When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere.

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!