Foreign policy Quote by Irving Kristol

The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we…

— Lewis Thomas

“Spain was recently unified, one of the new modern nation-states, like France , England , and Portugal . Its population, mostly poor peasants, worked…

— Anonymous

Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact…

— Pranab Mukherjee

Libya as a country is a relatively new concept. The period of Libya as a modern nation really starts after World War II.

— Elliott Abrams

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others…

— Theodor Herzl

“By 1938, Scotland had for nearly 200 years lived within a classic peripheral identity assigned to it by the artists and ideologues of the…

— Colin McArthur

“Well, in my view what would ultimately be necessary would be a breakdown of the nation-state system―because I think that's not a viable system.…

— Noam Chomsky

It was interesting watching the Afghanistan war review deliberations, this three-month process where Barack Obama did the most thorough foreign policy review ever by…

— Michael Hastings

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on…

— Ricky Skaggs

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,…

— Joseph Goebbels