Discours citoyen du monde en Anglais

When we see the atrocities, the injustices, the abuses committed in the name of the idol homeland.

When you see the bloody impasses that all nationalisms lead to.

When we see how, for a little oil, cobalt, or uranium, the most elementary feelings of humanity are violated.

When we see how the demands of sacred selfishness make life and human dignity cheap, when it is a question of ensuring the possession of a raw material or an area of influence, when we see the fabulous sums wasted on weapons that will never be used, or which, if unfortunately they were used, would endanger the whole species, in other words, when we see people ruining themselves, or for nothing, or for their suicide.

Solve all economic and social problems - because of which the world is divided into antagonistic blocks.

When we think of all that science, medicine, culture and democracy could gain from a pacification of the world that would release so much power and energy, absorbed until now by the work of death.

How can we not dream, at least, of a humanity without borders and finally capable of devoting itself to tasks that are no longer petty national, but global.

Why did he have so many deaths during the Second World War?

As you can see, 60 million people died, or 2.5 percent of the world's population.

They are the citizens of the world, of all parties, of all faiths, of all opinions. There are among us rationalists and mystics, believers and unbelievers, men who respect Man because they see in him an image of God and others who respect him simply because he is Man.

There are soldiers - and conscientious objectors.

There are young people, fortunately many young people, and also old people.

There are even high schools.

There are anarchists and men of order.

there are men who are said to be from the right and others who are said to be from the left.

violent and non-violent;

men who think that force must help the triumph of what must be and others who admit the use only of weapons of light.

There are men of logic and men of dreams as Martin Luther King.

Men of truth and men of poetry.

There are well-balanced men and also, fortunately, men who have in their souls that precious grain of madness so often necessary to shake up the inert sages.

To be a citizen of the world is to bet for the survival of Man, that is what Jean Rostand said

A united world can only be built by men and women who have this pacifism at heart.

To be a citizen of the world is to believe in humanity! Karl Marx, Einstein called themselves world citizens,

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