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

"Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

"The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."

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

"Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

"Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."

"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."