The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men - Gustav Landauer, Schwache Stattsmanner, Schwacheres Volk!, June, 1910 http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/
The age of nations has passed. Now, unless we wish to perish, we must shake off our old prejudices and build the Earth. The more scientifically I regard the world, the less can I see any possible biological future for it except in the active consciousness of its unity. --Teilhard de Chardin
Staying in a place and living there are different - African tribe Igbo
Red, white and blue, the most successful flag colours in history. Don?t put green in your flag: countries with green flags have troubles - AA Gill http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7009888.ece
Patriotism is a lively sense of collective responsibility. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on a dunghill - Richard Aldington (1892?1962) British poet and novelist. The Colonel?s Daughter (1931)
Nations will not disarm, because the defense of their citizens is the principal justification for their existence. If you really want disarmament on this planet, you must abolish sovereign nations or reduce their sovereignty. It is unbelievable that states, leaders and governments have not realized that we have entered a new period of history in which one realised problem after the other will face humanity and will require proper world management and an entirely new political system - Robert Muller
Nations beware: people will emancipate themselves into one humanity, whatever you may think or do. You better get prepared for it - Robert Muller
More and more people are becoming abnormal and not fitting neatly into a single civilisation - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p48
It takes a long time for people to recognise their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves - An Intimate History of Humanity
It seems to me that today we are all trying too hard to be different, to be unique. We are very self-centred, and materialistic. We are living an increasingly isolated existence, more and more separated physically and emotionally from our friends and families and community. We spend most of our time at work where our relationships are not very deep and meaningful. The result of this kind of living is , I feel, that we begin to realise that we are missing something in our lives that there must be more to existence than our present experience - Oxford Muse, 2005