Juan Enriquez Quotes

From Kurdistan to Catalonia to Scotland, from Syria to Chechnya to South Sudan, from indigenous communities in the Andean nations to tribal communities in sub-Saharan Africa, many people are shifting their primary political identities away from the nation-states in which they lived for many generations.

I just think it is entirely normal for the United Kingdom to be an independent nation state.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Throughout history, countries have sought to expand ….Today, the goal of most wars is too make countries smaller rather than larger.

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

Nationalism is the most powerful force on earth today.

Some civil wars are caused by one group within a country seeking its independence, while in other cases, the civil war itself leads one group or another to seek its independence as the solution to its problems.

No foreign Power can consistently yield Comfort to Rebels, or enter into any kind of Treaty with these Colonies until they [the Colonies] declare themselves free and independent.

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

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.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

I want my own country, not against Canada but for Quebec.

When you have people in a geographical area who do not want to be a part of a country, you cannot keep them in that country forever.

There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world.

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.

The English, as most of the Scots are, seem to be weary of the Union …. If we saw a possibility of getting free of the Union without a civil war, we would have some comfort, but that I’m afraid is impossible.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

This object we expect to obtain, by a total separation from Mexico, as an independent community, a new republic, or by becoming a state of the United States.

What is modernity? Is it defending foreign interests, or defending interests of our country?

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

On you, it primarily rests whether Ireland shall remain an integral portion of a great empire, sharing in its glory … or whether … Ireland shall become the focus and the center of foreign intrigue and deadly conspiracy.

Rename has always been much moor powerful being France on its own than being a province of the European Union.