Country Quote by Eduardo Galeano

If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations.…

— Pankaj Mishra

In my view, nations together are stronger than when they are isolated. And because they are stronger, their people are more free, not less.

— Charles Kennedy

Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population…

— John F. Kennedy

With the decline of America's global preeminence, weaker countries will be more susceptible to the assertive influence of major regional powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…

— Rudolph Rummel

Governments should be smaller. In fact, governments and countries in general are less important than we think they are. They take credit for processes…

— Pavel Durov

The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

— Grace Lee Boggs

All small countries have the same problems and concerns about being protected from larger countries and their influences.

— Ken Watanabe

“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale…

— James Dale Davidson

If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and…

— Wen Jiabao

Nations have the wrong granularity. They’re too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is…

— Nicholas Negroponte

“The shift in national power may be overshadowed by an even more fundamental shift in the nature of power. Enabled by communications technologies, power…

— National Research Council