"Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful……" — Rebecca Solnit
"Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic enforcement - people are withdrawing to shape and support more localised forms of organisation and power. To the extent that it's part of that civilised and localising world, the same is true of the U.S."
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Rebecca Solnit
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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