Statehood Quotes

“If the Bahreini royal family can have an embassy, a state, and a seat at the UN, why should the twenty-five million Kurds not have a claim to autonomy? The alleviation of their suffering and the assertion of their self-government is one of the few unarguable benefits of regime change in Iraq. It is not a position from which any moral retreat would be allowable.”
― Christopher Hitchens, A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq

“But the Modern Utopia must not be static but kinetic, must shape not as a permanent state but as a hopeful stage, leading to a long ascent of stages. Nowadays we do not resist and overcome the great stream of things, but rather float upon it. We build now not citadels, but ships of state.”
― H. G. Wells

“We have witnessed in the 20th century a tremendous phenomenon: the birth of the modern State of Israel. ...God is at work with His ancient chosen earthly people. We ought to pay attention to what is going on for behind the movement of nations is the hand of God.”
― J. Otis Yoder

“إننا ما دمنا لا نفكر السياسة في قياس دولة ما ومجتمع ما ماضون نسبح في فراغ يبتلعنا ونحن نزعم تعقّله والسيطرة عليه، فإذ نستعيض عن الدول بما نظنّه الصحّ والخطأ العائمين في سديم، نكون كمن يلعب كرة القدم قبل أن يرسم الملعب.”
― حازم صاغية, هذه ليست سيرة

“Collective memory, the foundation of any culture's narrative, is a historical; mythology, laces with figments of truth, is essential to forming a country's founding identity and maintaining social cohesion.”
― Padraig O'Malley, The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine--A Tale of Two Narratives

“In the ideal state, laws are few and simple. In the corrupt state, they are many and confused.”
― J.Adam Snyder

“Likewise, as William James maintained, the virtues of a good citizen—a sense of duty and responsibility to the common good—are the “rock upon which states are built”
― Christopher Peterson, Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification

“Sonnet of Occupation

With just weeks of lockdown,
You all feel restless and bland.
That is how everyday life is,
For people in occupied land.
Imagine living your whole life,
Subject to restriction and suspicion.
Ask a Palestinian or a Kashmiri,
They'll reveal the face of occupation.
Life, liberty and happiness,
Are the rights of every being.
Whenever a government violates them,
Civilized humanity must intervene.
I call to all humans far and near,
Rest not till statehood is declared.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Lying underneath this majestic memorial of military grandeur(Arc de Triomphe) is the "Tomb to the Unknown Soldiers". The edifice affirms the bloody truth that statehood requires triumph, and triumph requires sacrificial death.”
― Jacob L. Wright, Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins

“If China invades India through Ladakh,we will not stop China but will show path to China getting inside”
― Sonam Wangchuk