43 Quotes About Cosmopolitanism

If you like war, be a nationalist. If you like peace, be a citizen of the world.

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."[As quoted in Plutarch's Of Banishment]

Cairo and Alexandria were cosmopolitan not so much because they contained foreigners, but because the Egyptian born in them is himself a stranger to his land.

And you can fool yourself if you’re raised in New York. Think that somehow your birthplace alone makes you cosmopolitan. But it isn’t true. We’re rubes too.

Cosmopolitanism,..., _speaks_ about the urgent need for and the significance of relocating our discourse on,..., the scope and application of rights and justice for every singular human being regardless of the person's birth and belonging.

I believe that dreaming an _impossible_ world, is itself the task of theologies and that the disparity between _the world-as-it-is_ (reality) and _the world-as-it-ought-to-be_ (ideality) is where a prophetic call_ comes in.

[...]Cosmopolitan evolutionism is an illusion, and it is everywhere being exposed as such.There is no solution to Foreignness. It is eternal - and radical. It is not a matter of wanting it to be that way. It simply is so.