Ideas Quote by Salman Rushdie

States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.

— Victor Davis Hanson

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and…

— Tom Stoppard

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete

— Rod Serling

We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still…

— Barack Obama

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past,

— William J. Clinton

In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've…

— Malcolm X

“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are…

— Timothy Snyder

History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.

— Allan Nevins

Of all the numerous forms that governments have taken over the centuries, of all the concepts and institutions that have been tried, none has…

— Murray Rothbard

The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles.…

— Albert Einstein

... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of these ideologies…

— Donald Livingston

Why does a state last a thousand years? Why not 999? Why not a thousand and one? What are the events that finally bring…

— Norman Davies