French revolution Quote by Grace Lee Boggs

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

In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own,…

— Malcolm X

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

— Donald Trump

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its…

— Agnes de Mille

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the…

— Os Guinness

Ideas more than once have prevailed against naked power. Guns and aircraft alone do not make a state powerful. Unless force is backed up…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right…

— Noam Chomsky

You know that in the Eurasian space, Russia is the central state, the most powerful state. But to become an empire, a member of…

— Alexander Lukashenko

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population…

— Aldous Huxley

“The English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law and in…

— Nicholas Wade

It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one.

— Pierre Corneille

I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as…

— Grace Lee Boggs