Quotes on World Citizen

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.

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.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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.

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

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

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

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

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

The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.

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