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When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.15
Culture and tradition is always used as a positive thing, but I think there’s many negatives to it, because it drives a wedge between people, because one of the things about culture is that my culture is better than yours. Who cares? . . . That’s why I’m not patriotic. I’m not a flag-waver, I couldn’t care less. Because to me, the most important thing in this life is being a human being . . . I have no shame, you know, in saying that I’m not patriotic, or anything, because it’s irrelevant to me.
