Arthur C. Clarke Quotes

I guess I just don't see America as separate from Vietnam or Ethiopia. This mentality of 'our team's better than yours' - it's a high school idea. My kids don't see those dividing lines, and I don't want to either.

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

Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

Let's be cautious about narrow nationalism.

Nations, like small communities, are in danger of becoming provincial, and must become so, unless they exchange commodities, theories, thoughts, and ideals. Isolation is the soil of ignorance, and ignorance is the soil of egotism; and nations, like individuals who live apart, mistake provincialism for perfection, and hatred of all other nations for patriotism.

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.

Are we going to permit uncontrolled nationalism to dominate civilized Europe…?

The "State" was substituted for humanity; cosmopolitan gave way to nationalism.

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.

Nationalism cannot flower if it does not grow in the garden of internationalism.

Nations are divided, but we citizens need not be.

Armageddon is not around the corner. This is only what the people of violence want us to believe. The complexity and diversity of the world is the hope for the future.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

I hate patriotism... I can't stand it. It's a round world last time I checked.

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 see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

To survive in peace and harmony, united and strong, we must have one people, one nation, one flag.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Though I love my country I do not love my countrymen.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

Imagine there's no countries; it isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace...