Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

I was born in Belgium. I went to school in England and in Switzerland, then I came to America, so I really feel like I am a citizen of the world.

I consider myself to be a citizen of the world.

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

You might have heard about a transformation that can occur when someone first sees Earth from space - how it becomes harder to think about 'my country' or 'my people' and harder not to think about 'our planet.' I can tell you, that transformation is real.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

The best American is one who considers themselves as a citizen of the world.

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.

I no longer see my world as delineated by countries with borders or language, but as seven billion humans living off a single, finite planet.

I am actually a resident of three worlds - of America, of India, and of Africa. I live in Uganda most of the year. It's extraordinary to have that worldview that is an expansive one rather than just looking at the world from where you sit.

I know it's a cliche, but I see myself as a citizen of the world. I was brought up in Switzerland by German and Turkish parents but I've very much grown up in San Francisco. I have a European sense of aesthetic, but I'm also deeply steeped in the notion of change and entrepreneurship that is associated with Silicon Valley.

I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.

You get this overview effect where you realize how small we are and how fragile our planet is and how we're really all in it together. You don't see borders from space, you don't see diversity and differences in people on Earth.

I've lived all over Europe, spent a lot of time in London, went to school in Scotland, college in America, so I do think I have sort of a sensibility on a fairly global level.

My parents always instilled in me to be a citizen of the world, so that's why I've taken to traveling and why it's such a huge part of my life.

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

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a 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.

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

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.

Think globally, act locally, think tribally, act universally.

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

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

I don't think of myself as an American; I see myself as a human being.

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.