China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It…

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as…

— Martin Jacques

There is a physical, not moral, impossibility of supplying the wants of the intellect in the state of civilisation at which we have arrived.

— Florence Nightingale

As a nation, China, is one of the most powerful countries around and if anyone can make something happen, if anything is in their…

— Kristin Armstrong

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound…

— Michael W. Michalak

Sport's always political and here it's more complex because we're a nation without a state.

— Joan Laporta

In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist…

— Janne Teller

“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