Isaac Asimov Quotes

I think the world should be one community.

Above all nations is humanity.

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

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. .

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

No one cares about race or religion or nationality in space travel. We're all just part of Team Human.

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.

I'd like to see the whole world.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

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.

The dancer will not belong to a nation but to all humanity.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

There are differences in the world community. But we have a common interest in a strong multilateral system.

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

The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Before the human race today there are only two roads: War or brotherhood.

God hath made of one blood all nations of men.

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

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

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.