Nation State Quotes

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A true libertarian supports free enterprise, opposes big business; supports local self-government, opposes the nation-state; supports the National Rifle Association, opposes the Pentagon. — Edward Abbey
The real issue is control. The Internet is too widespread to be easily dominated by any single government. By creating a seamless global economic zone,… — John Perry Barlow
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 than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past, — William J. Clinton
American is the first democratic nation-state. — Stephen Ambrose
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped… — Marcy Kaptur
Cyber will be part of any future conflict -- whether it's a nation state or terrorism, — Cofer Black
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an… — Sam Hamill
As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus â€¦ on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever. — Anthony Gregory
Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change… — Bob Black
For over a century, popular struggles in the democracies have used the nation-state to temper raw capitalism. The power of voters has offset the power… — Robert Kuttner
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 currency,… — David Starkey
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large employers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state.… — Stanley Wolpert
The Nation State as such is totally a construction: what we feel for it in terms of habits, traditions, countryside or nature could exist without… — Janne Teller
Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before long the social… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty. — George Will
In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities… — Feisal Abdul Rauf
Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement… — Rebecca Solnit
Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate… — Ulrich Beck

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