Neil Tennant Quotes

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over the surface of the globe, should be as children playing in a garden.

… my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders

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

Anyone who goes to space tried to look at his own country first, but soon it appears that there is no boundary between the countries and the entire world is one family where our destinies are integrated.

I'd like to see the whole world.

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.

The world will never come together and say, 'We are one.'

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

Above all nations is humanity.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.

It is the apparent plan of nature that as one human being, so also one generation, and also one nationality learn, learn incessantly, from and with the others, until all have comprehended the difficult lesson: No nationality has been solely designated by God as the chosen people of the earth; above all we must seek the truth and cultivate the garden of the common good. Hence no nationality of Europe may separate itself sharply, and foolishly say, "With us alone, with us dwells all wisdom.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

There is this way that I felt when I was younger that we were beyond history and we were all citizens of the world that now seems so naive.

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.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

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.

We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself.

I hold to nothing but envisioning international peace and utopia. We all have many more things in common than not.

I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.

It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.