Elif Batuman Quotes

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.

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

I'd like to see the whole world.

I think the world should be one community.

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

Our country is the world — our countrymen are all mankind

What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all connected these days; we can listen to the same music as kids all around the world and share our ideas.

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 working people know no country. They are citizens of the world.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

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.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

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.

It is crucial that we develop real awareness of ourselves as citizens of Earth, linked by mutual and indissoluble bonds. When we clearly recognize this reality and ground ourselves in it, we are compelled to take a strict accounting of our way of life.

We don't see the global citizen as someone with no identity, but rather someone who has confidence and is proud of his culture and history - and... open to the modern world.

My hope is that I can somehow raise the level of consciousness about world events.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

Above all nations is humanity.

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.

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 wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.