I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.
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.
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
I'm still ambiguously ethnic. I could be Persian - I could be anything. But I'm Italian and Jewish, so I'm a citizen of the world; that's what I prefer.
I regard myself as an international man, a citizen of the earth.
Spending years between America and Israel, I have gained a global view, and the planet is my home.
I am a man who belongs to no one and who belongs to the whole world.
I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.
Philosophy is properly home-sickness; the wish to be everywhere at home.
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.
When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.
My ideal destination is a place where my family is; it could be anywhere in the world and it'll still be home.
We need to assert our allegiance to the human race, and not to any one nation.
Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man's religion and don't let anybody ever tell you that it's white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.
I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.
The children of God should not have any other country here below but the universe itself, with the totality of all the reasoning creatures it ever has contained, contains, or ever will contain. That is the native city to which we owe our love.
I have family who are British citizens and who want to be citizens of the world and citizens of the E.U.
When we founded Airbnb in 2008, our dream was to help create a world where you could belong anywhere, and that vision has taken root in almost every country in the world.
I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.
On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.
