Isaac Asimov Quotes

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

Every nation for itself and God for all of us.

Unification of the whole of mankind is the hall-mark of the stage which human society is now approaching. Unity of family, of tribe, of city-state, and nation have been successively attempted and fully established. World unity is the goal towards which a harassed humanity is striving. Nation-building has come to an end. The anarchy inherent in state sovereignty is moving towards a climax. A world, growing to maturity, must abandon this fetish, recognize the oneness and wholeness of human relationships, and establish once for all the machinery that can best incarnate this fundamental principle of its life. .

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

Each of us must learn to work not just for one self, one's own family or one's nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

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

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.

If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for humanity? Who speaks for earth?

The pursuit of one's own interest seems to be the rule for international relations, without the common good of humanity being taken into consideration.

A world authority and an eventual world state are not just desirable in the name of brotherhood, they are necessary for survival.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race.

No one should abandon his county's interest upon entering the portals of the United Nations.

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.

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