"Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all."

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Source : "America Abroad" by Strobe Talbott, content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

Strobe Talbott

#World Government Quotes #Order Quotes #Nwo Quotes

“You got your guards up, I do too, there's things we might discover. Cause you got a past and I do too, we're perfect for each other.”
“I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!”
“To allow the market mechanism to be the sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment....would result in the demolition of society.”
“Without infringing on the liberty we so much boast, might we not ask our professional Mayor to call upon the smokers, have them register their names in each ward, and then appoint certain thoroughfares in the city for their use, that those who feel no need of this envelopment of curling vapor, to insure protection may be relieved from a nuisance as disgusting to the olfactories as it is prejudicial to the lungs.”
“Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.”
“Whatever people may say, the fastidious formal manner of the upper classes is preferable to the slovenly easygoing behaviour of the common middle class. In moments of crisis, the former know how to act, the latter become uncouth brutes.”
“The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.”
“If the police don't defend us, maybe we ought to do it ourselves.”

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