H. G. Wells
“Our true nationality is mankind.”
The Outline of History, 1920
Documented source
Source
H. G. Wells, The Outline of History (1920)
Note
Correct source — not The Time Machine
Wording
Exact
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About this line
Wells wrote The Outline of History in the immediate aftermath of a war that killed twenty million people in the name of national loyalty. He’d watched borders become body counts, and his answer was to zoom out as far as a person can: what you share with every other human outranks every line on a map.
Why we carry this line
After a war fought over borders, Wells said the only nationality that counts is being human. I’ll wear that all day. And I do.
