#erna

The very heart of being a sovereign nation is providing security of one's borders, of one's internal situation, and security against anyone attacking one's nation. That is the very heart of what I believe is sovereignty. ↗

— John Warner

#anyone #attacking #being #believe #borders

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

— Earl Warren

#failure #found #imperatives #internationalism #most

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us. ↗

— Alan Watts

#exists #external #external world #independently #pretend

For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#been #black #black community #claimed #community

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government. ↗

— Jay Weatherill

#appropriate #commonwealth #could #export #framework

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#supernatural #understood #yet

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance. ↗

— Simone Weil

#being #chance #coming #eternal #him

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. ↗

— Simone Weil

#conflict #international #likely #more #petroleum

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ↗

— Simone Weil

#else #genius #humility #nothing #real

Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#banned #carried #chinese #danced #hundreds