Nations

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
- David Friedman

Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
- Paul Ambroise Valéry, 1871 - 1945

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
- Herbert V. Prochnow, 1897 - 1998

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
- Arthur C. Clarke