Quotes About Stateless

#1. In other words, despite the dogged liberal assumption - again, coming from Smith's legacy - that the existence of states and markets are somehow opposed, the historical record implies that exactly the opposite is the case. Stateless societies tend also to be without markets.

David Graeber

#2. Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can't be used as a totem or fetish in that way.

Terry Eagleton

#3. Sick of this State
Of that Stateless States
That moves at this rate
That Knocks at the Gate
And Yearns for the remains
Of the brave new fate.

Khalid Chaouch

#4. A man can lead a reasonably full life without a family, a fixed local residence, or a religious affiliation, but if he is stateless he is nothing. He has no rights, no security, and little opportunity for a useful career. There is no salvation on earth outside the framework of an organized state.

Joseph Reese Strayer

#5. Applying different standards to al Qaeda does not abandon Geneva, but only recognizes that the U.S. faces a stateless enemy never contemplated by the Conventions.

John Yoo

#6. If you will remember history correctly, even the Second World War was perpetrated by a stateless actor, by murdering the Prince Rudolf, if you remember. And so is the case with 9/11. It was a stateless actor which has made the world go to war.

Asif Ali Zardari

#7. The solution to the Jewish question merely produced a new category of refugees, the Arabs, thereby increasing the number of the stateless and rightless by another 700,000 to 800,000 people.

Hannah Arendt

#8. Since the peace treaties
of 1919 and 1920, the refugees and
the stateless have attached themselves
like a curse to all the newly
established states on earth which
were created in the image of the
nation-state.

Hannah Arendt

#9. To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.

John Updike

#10. I really feel stateless, which is not bad, because I always felt a man without a country was not encumbered by narrow loyalties.

Morley Safer

#11. Anarchism is stateless socialism.

Mikhail Bakunin

#12. I think that the Internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government.

Milton Friedman

#13. Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood

Umar

#15. The vast size of the available workforce in the emerging markets (1.3 billion people in China alone) means that labor costs will not rise above the $2 per hour threshold for decades. And, that is what we are competing against!

Frank Coyle

#16. 73. When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?

Marcus Aurelius

#17. How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

W.G. Sebald

#18. My work is all about creating new paths for thinking about the possibilities inherent in all art; another world is possible!

DJ Spooky