The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what…

“We all belong to one nation and that notion for nation is the land of the Lords.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

— Anonymous

Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone…

— Friedrich Engels

Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.

— John Burnside

“In Nature too, much may exist that we do not like. But we cannot change the essential character of natural events. If, for example,…

— Ludwig von Mises

All the laws of Nature exist inside us, and if we don't find them inside ourselves we will never find them outside.

— Samael Aun Weor

“Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process.”

— James Dale Davidson

Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one…

— David Starkey

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless…

— Grace Lee Boggs

We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more…

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic…

— John Perry Barlow

“The nation-state at best is based on the social contract that is also an emotional contract, stamped by the charisma of the past.” —SVETLANA…

— Brian Alexander

Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and…

— Hannah Arendt