History Quote by Brian Alexander

You ask people to fall in love with you. To need you. To want you. To buy your records and come see you. You…

— Steven Van Zandt

“Grief is the emotional contract of divorce”

— Cheryl Nielsen

“Monomoy sent what was left of Lancaster’s once-grand, 110-year-old employer into bankruptcy court while it made off with millions and the employees walked their…

— Brian Alexander

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

If I want to transform patriotism then I do not proceed in the slightest against the fine fact of the nation but against the…

— Gustav Landauer

“To be independent, a nation state must be able to control its energy source.”

— John Coleman

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

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

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