Storm Jameson Quotes

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

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.

The concept of patriotism is not incompatible with that of humanity; on the contrary, let me state emphatically that he who best serves pacifism serves patriotism best. The nation is and can be no more than the vital basic unit of any international league.

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

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.

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.

The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

If the United Nations is not as united as it should be, that is because it is a reflection of the world we live in.

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

I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset.

The whole world is my family.

The goal of the World Federalists is peace through unity of government. We must support their vision of oneness in diversity, for it is the salvation of mankind.

We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.

Traditional nationalism cannot survive the fissioning of the atom. One world or none.

When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

If we really wish to put an end to our ongoing international and social problems we must eventually declare Earth and all of its resources as the common heritage of all the world's people.

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

I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.