I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy…

“Spain was recently unified, one of the new modern nation-states, like France , England , and Portugal . Its population, mostly poor peasants, worked…

— Anonymous

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact…

— Pranab Mukherjee

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

— Elliott Abrams

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals

— Irving Kristol

“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues of the…

— Colin McArthur

“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a viable system.…

— Noam Chomsky

The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we…

— Lewis Thomas

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming…

— Theodor Herzl

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

— Henry Adams

“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that…

— Marcel Proust

One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North--personal responsibility to other human beings for education and…

— Marshall McLuhan

It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary…

— Bertrand Russell

Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing…

— Walter Lippmann

Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses…

— Lawrence Douglas

“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer