Nation-state Quotes

• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • War
  • Political
  • Earth

• The cricket star, like everyone else, should have an intelligent understanding of the crisis of the nation-state and the marginalisation of small communities within the global economy.

  

  Hilary Beckles
  • Intelligent
  • Economy
  • Nation-state

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

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Relic
  • Nation-state