Environmental pollution, terrorism, and many other global threats do not stop at borders. We all bear global responsibility and thus need a global identity to enable us to cope with them. We must learn to integrate different levels of identity in ourselves. What matters is not either/or, but both/and.
Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
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.
In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power of the States, constituting this great and glorious Union. To the rest of the world, we are one. Neither State nor State government is known beyond our borders. Within, it is different.
I no longer identify myself as Japanese or American but a 'citizen of the universe.'
Because I don't belong entirely to Britain or the U.S. or India or Japan, I build my foundations in some way deeper than mere passports, and more in the light of where I'm going than of "where I come from."
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.
By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.
We're all Africans, everyone - black, white, yellow.
Asked from what country he came, Diogenes the Cynic replied, "I am a citizen of the world.
...wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.
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.
I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality.
I think of myself as a global citizen.
The City of Angels is a microcosm of the world, and so living in L.A. makes me feel like a citizen of the world.
Asked where he came from, he said, "I am a citizen of the world."
I want people all around the globe to know that there are girls in Asia, like me, who like hip-hop and dress uniquely.
I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.
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.
The principle of the brotherhood of man is narcissistic... for the grounds for that love have always been the assumption that we ought to realize that we are the same the whole world over.
People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.
I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.
