Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Not because Socrates said so,... I look upon all men as my compatriots.

I think the world should be one community.

Our true nationality is mankind.

The more I am French, the more I feel a part of humanity.

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

I would like to express the thoughts of a man who, having finally penetrated the partitions and ceilings of little countries, little coteries, little sects, rises above all these categories and finds himself a child and citizen of the Earth.

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.

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

I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

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

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

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.

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

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

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.

All the ills of mankind spring from belonging to a race, a nation, a city, a group of some kind. The ideal would be to belong to none, and to care for allbut who is capable of that?

The only real nation is humanity

All men are our brothers. As far as the discovery of the truth is concerned, they are all working for the same purpose; they may be separated by the accidents of space and time, and by the exigencies of race, religion, nationality, and other groupings; from the point of view of eternity they are working together.

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.

People stand themselves next to the righteous They believe the things they say are true They speak in terms of what divides us To justify the violence they do But it is one, it is one One world spinning 'round the sun Wherever it is you call home Whatever country you come from It is one

Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.