Parag Khanna Quotes

Just as one wife does not have two husbands so one land does not have two sovereign nations in possession of it.

This recognition by the United Nations of the right of the Jewish people to establish their independent State may not be revoked. It is, moreover, the self-evident right of the Jewish people to be a nation, as all other nations, in its own sovereign State.

Sovereignty is as necessary as ever.

Every nation reserves the right to go to war with every other nation. Therefore, every ethnic group wants to be a nation.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

We don't need legitimacy. We exist. Therefore we are legitimate.

Our first object is... the obtaining of sovereignty, assured by international law, over a portion of the globe sufficiently large to satisfy our just requirements.

No new state is ever fully ready for independence ..

No country can be expected to make peace with a nation that denies its right to exist.

My people have a right to exist ... and this existence is in danger.

I wouldn't say the nation-state is dead, but the Sovereignty has been greatly circumscribed ... even for a country as large as the U. S.

Canada is not another [American] State, and we don't want to be one.

To exercise self-determination through secession is to blow apart the union, to pit peoples against one another and to sow discord, bloodshed and death. This is precisely the goal of secessionists in all republics.

You must not expect the central government of any country to encourage separatism.

Every nation, civilized or primitive, sees its land as its national home, where it wants to be the sole landlord forever. Such a nation will never willingly consent to new landlords or even to partnership.

A Volk [people] without a state is nothing, a lifelong frivolous phantom like the vagabond gypsies and Jews.

Our ancestors have always regarded independence as fundamental to the concept of a nation.

These colonies are, and of right ought to be, individual states.

The right of a State to secede is not an open or debatable question

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength, or however greatly they may differ in government, religion, or manners. This perfect equality, and entire independence of all distinct states, is a fundamental principle of public law. It is a necessary consequence of this equality that each nation has a right to govern itself as it may think proper, and no one nation is entitled to dictate a form of government or religion, or a course of internal policy, to another. No state is entitled to take cognizance or notice of the domestic administration of another state, or of what passes within it as between the government and its own subjects

The Jewish people, like many other peoples, like all the other peoples, deserve the right to self-determination and a state, as long as it doesn't take the rights of the others