Clement Attlee Quotes

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

I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I'm going back, but I'm not. I'd rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

Socrates, indeed, when he was asked of what country he called himself, said, "Of the world"; for he considered himself an inhabitant and a citizen of the whole world.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

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.

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

More and more, the choice for the world's people is between becoming world warriors or world citizens.

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

I thought of myself as a global citizen.

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

I'm not a U.S. citizen. I mean, I'm an earth-izen. Borderline policies are crap to me.

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.

I've always been interested in people who aren't from anywhere in particular. I think it's all melting. This has been true for as long as I can remember in my adult life.

The universe is my country and the human family is my tribe.

Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.

I think of myself as a global citizen.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

This is my country, that is your country; these are the conceptions of narrow souls - to the liberal minded the whole world is a family.

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth.