Acting Quote by Zbigniew Brzezinski

The current nation-state model is the product of thousands of years of political, social, and cultural evolution. I mean, it was only recently -…

— Stephen Miller

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

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

The nation-state is becoming less and less competent to perform its international political tasks... These are some of the reasons pressing us to lead…

— Nelson Rockefeller

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.

— J. G. Holland

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together in the past and hope to do great things together in…

— Frank Underhill

“Despite proclamations and forecasts to the contrary, neither the nation-state nor the international system of states is dead in the new millennium. What has…

— Brigid Starkey

Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic…

— Rebecca Solnit

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

A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.

— Ernest Renan

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress.

— Simon Schama