Nation States Quotes

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The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and… — Maurice Strong
The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism. — Earl Warren
Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states, — Alexei Sayle
The cultural institutions which embody and enforce those interlocked aberrations-for instance, law, art, religion, nation-states, the family, tribe, or commune based on father-right-these institutions are… — Andrea Dworkin
It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great… — Samuel P. Huntington
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of… — Unknown Author
I think it is no exaggeration to say we are on the cusp of the further perfection of extreme evil, an evil whose possibility spreads… — Bill Joy
Are we all clear that we want to build something that can aspire to be a world power? In other words, not just a trading… — Romano Prodi
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to… — Stephen Ambrose
The notion that the UN is some sort of dispassionate body that, does right and just pursues everybody's best interests is a fantasy. Each individual… — Mona Charen
Democratic nation states remain far more capable of managing the circuit of coercion, taxation and legitimation than any transnational bodies. — Geoff Mulgan
Modernity has been largely shaped for Jews by three momentous experiences: the acquisition of citizenship by individual Jews in secular nation-states, the destruction of one-third… — David Novak
The fact is Qatar, Etihad, Emirates, Singapore, Garuda, all of the three Chinese airlines, Air New Zealand - the fact is that international aviation relies… — Anthony Albanese
In a pre-Internet world, sovereignty over our physical freedoms, or lack thereof, was controlled almost entirely by nation-states. — Rebecca MacKinnon
I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there. — Vaclav Klaus
Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea… — Michael McCaul
What is new in all of this is that the old poles of attraction represented by nation-states, parties, professions, institutions, and historical traditions are losing… — Jean-Francois Lyotard
In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations - some nation states, some private and some criminal - that proliferate weapons… — Dennis C. Blair
U.S. computer networks and databases are under daily cyber attack by nation states, international crime organizations, subnational groups, and individual hackers. — John O. Brennan
One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation… — Richard Rohr

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