Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are…

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct, he was obsolete. But so was the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any…

— Rod Serling

Glorious as it had been, the city-state was obsolete.

— Robert A. Dahl

France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

— Gustave Courbet

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

— Gore Vidal

Cultural Marxism that has permeated all of Europe and has been the driving force that has brought France - the nation of Liberty, Fraternity…

— Charlie Kirk

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

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

“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

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

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