I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]
Tags: cosmopolitan cosmopolitanism world-citizenship
John Muir, Earth — planet, Universe
[Muir's home address, as inscribed on the inside front cover of his first field journal]
Tags: science unity cosmopolitan naturalist
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth; I am a citizen of the world.
Eugene V. DebsTags: compassion humanity cosmopolitan anti-militarism anti-nationalism universal-love
They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you.
Tom SpanbauerTags: cosmopolitan
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: equality nationalism pride cosmopolitan universality tribalism
My method is atheism. I find the atheistic outlook provides a favourable background for cosmopolitan practices. Acceptance of atheism at once pulls down caste and religious barriers between man and man. There is no longer a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian. All are human beings. Further, the atheistic outlook puts man on his legs. There is neither divine will nor fate to control his actions. The release of free will awakens Harijans [lowest caste] and the depressed classes from the stupor of inferiority into which they were pressed all these ages when they were made to believe that they were fated to be untouchables. So I find the atheistic outlook helpful for my work [helping people]. After all it is man that created god to make society moral and to silence restless inquisitiveness about the how and why of natural phenomena. Of course god was useful though a falsehood. But like all falsehoods, belief in god also gave rise to many evils in course of time and today it is not only useless but harmful to human progress. So I take to the propagation of atheism as an aid to my work. The results justify my choice.
Goparaju Ramachandra RaoTags: progress equality questions free-will morality humanity belief nature fate atheism atheist control naturalism materialism islam muslim hinduism cosmopolitan inferiority hindu useless aid harmful divine-will atheistic natural-phenomena atheistic-outlook caste-system man-created-god religious-barriers social-reformer untouchables
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