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  • No one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.

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

  • As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

    Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam
  • Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines... If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy, wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.

  • What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

  • The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

    "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.
  • I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

  • It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

  • The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

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

    Book   Patriotic   Beer  
  • Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.

    Respect   Peace   Freedom  
    "Living in Truth". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.
  • If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident

  • Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

    Song   Heart   Singing  
  • For me, it's good fortune to be between two cultures. Growing up in Germany taught me a lot. I am a world citizen. Today I can adapt well no matter where I am. Even when it's not always easy.

    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.

    Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation
  • Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

    Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.7247, Delphi Classics
  • If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.

    Address to French Philosophical Society, Paris, 6 Apr. 1922
  • The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

  • The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  • Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US. There is only WE.

    Men   Citizens   World  
  • That song helped make me a world citizen. It allowed me to live, work and sing in any city on the globe. It changed my whole life.

    Song   Cities   Citizens  
    Tony Bennett (2012). “The Good Life: The Autobiography Of Tony Bennett”, Simon and Schuster
  • The present mode of life on earth is madness, which is nontheless lethal for being legal. Rational existence is possible, but it calls for a world consciousness and a world design. People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

    Saturday Review (editorial), 1971.
  • The most important thing an institution does is not to prepare a student for a career but for a life as a citizen.

    Careers   Important   Doe  
  • It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world.

    "Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh". Book by Bahá'u'lláh edited and translated by Shoghi Effendi, 1935.
  • Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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

    "World".
  • World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

    Pride   Happy Life   Men  
  • Citizenship consists in the service of the country.

    Jawaharlal Nehru (1949). “Speeches”
  • The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

    Wise   Plato   Men  
  • There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

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