Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

The whole world is my family.

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.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

I think the world should be one community.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

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.

I am looking forward to the day in which the American President ends his speeches with, “God bless America and all the other people on this planet.”

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

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

You might have heard about a transformation that can occur when someone first sees Earth from space - how it becomes harder to think about 'my country' or 'my people' and harder not to think about 'our planet.' I can tell you, that transformation is real.

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

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.

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.

Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.

I belong to the world.I'm in a relationship with the world.

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Above all nations is humanity.