It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country,
but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but
one country and mankind its citizens.

—Bahá'u'lláh

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It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts.… To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.

—Albert Schweitzer

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Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

—Rudyard Kipling

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In the last analysis, my fellow country men, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of their government.

People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.

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16 Jan 2016 Added
26 Oct 2026 Wording changed

Previous wording

It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country,
but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but
one country and mankind its citizens.