Quotes About Being A Global Citizen

#1. The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.

Anne Elizabeth Moore

#2. Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart. [on Lord of the Rings]

C.S. Lewis

#3. I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

Rod Taylor

#4. I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me.

Gayle Forman

#5. I wasn't much into girlfriends. I was too busy tinkering in the garage.

Woody Norris

#6. Enjoy mystery and speculation, but don't drift into dogma.

Rob Bell

#7. I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living

Steven Morrissey

#8. We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

Cecily McMillan

#9. I couldn't begin to name names ... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet ... and some of the nicest as well.

John Oates

#10. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Jeanette Winterson

#11. Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

Vandana Shiva

#12. The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

Shari Arison

#13. There was something special about sunrise. I just preferred to experience it behind closed eyelids.

Anne Zoelle

#14. We have to be the best global citizens we can be.

Thomas Friedman

#15. Since homo sapiens can survive only by unrestrained racial killing, a Jewish triumph of reason over impulse would mean the end of the species. What a race needed, thought Hitler, was a "worldview" that permitted it to triumph, which meant, in the final analysis, "faith" in its own mindless mission.

Timothy Snyder