19th century Quote by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I do not know if the doctrine that the nation-state arose in the 19th century was still being taught:;... but it is erroneous. The…

— Enoch Powell

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years…

— Edgar Mitchell

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed…

— Olivier Theyskens

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

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

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

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless…

— Grace Lee Boggs

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…

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

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