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We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good. -- Vladimir Zhirinovsky
That man's the best cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective -- Namsoon Kang
Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people -- Namsoon Kang
We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today -- Ismail Serageldin
The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising weakness, since they deplete a civilization's vital energies and weaken its defensive or affirmative capacities. -- Guillaume Faye
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. -- J. B. Priestley
Cosmopolitanism has offered me an ethical perspective and a conceptual framework with which to read the _signs of our times_ as a theologian and intellectual who has a public responsibility for constantly offering a way to engage in this rapidly changing public world. -- Namsoon Kang
We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art. Cosmopolitanism - a world in which things lose their color and form, and words lose their significance. We love in our past all that we consider native, wonderful and fair. -- Ilya Ehrenburg
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and while she may love 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' merchandise more than is strictly warranted, she is in every way to be cherished as an exemplar of cosmopolitanism and tolerance. -- Will Self
When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education, where people wear three-piece suits and dark socks, often simultaneously. -- Bill Bryson
Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates

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