I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the…

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of…

— Michael Ignatieff

I would go to the European institutions, I would demand for the French people four sovereignties: territorial - our borders; monetary and budgetary; economic;…

— Marine Le Pen

To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to disregard the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes…

— Richard Rhodes

That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a…

— Thomas Jefferson

Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.

— Henry Knox

We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when we are…

— Mary Parker Follett

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind…

— George Matthew Adams

All disciplines affect each other. Mistakenly the man says, 'This is the only area where I let down.' Not true. Every let down affects…

— Jim Rohn

My life is not my own business.

— Anthony Hopkins

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At…

— Kofi Annan

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent.

— William J. Clinton

There is an interdependence between those who have and those who have not. The process of giving exalts the poor and humbles the rich.…

— Marion G. Romney