Agenda 21 Quote by Strobe Talbott

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such…

— Strobe Talbott

We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.

— John Boyd Orr

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think even nation states should be and will be obsolete. I think nationalism will be seen in the future as a form of…

— Deepak Chopra

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

Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

— Madeleine Albright

Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

— Richard N. Haass

Sovereignty is no longer achievable

— Lucien Bouchard

The concept of national sovereignty has been an immutable, indeed sacred, principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly…

— Maurice Strong

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

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

— Richard N. Haass

This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski