Hugo Weaving Quotes

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

Asked from what country he came, Diogenes the Cynic replied, "I am a citizen of the world.

A wise man’s country is the world.

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

The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

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

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

L.A.'s become so cosmopolitan in its casting and also in its world view.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

Loyalty to the family must be merged into loyalty to the community, loyalty to the community into loyalty to the nation, and loyalty to the nation into loyalty to mankind. The citizen of the future must be a citizen of the world.

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.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

I'm an international baby. I'm happy my parents decided I should be worldwide.

The old emphasis upon superficial differences that separate peoples must give way to education for citizenship in the human community.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.