Territorial Quotes

• Sovereignty no longer resides in the territory itself, but in the control of the territory. And localisation is an inherent part of that territorial control.

  Paul Virilio

  Territory, Sovereignty, Inherent

  Source: ctheory.net

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• No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mother, Peace, War

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Those who tell you that the territorial question is an abstraction, that you can never colonize another territory without the African slavetrade, are both deaf and blind to the history of the last sixty years.

  Robert Toombs

  Years, Deaf And Blind, Territory

  Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.8

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• The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. We still worship the elders of the tribe and honor the territorial imperative.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Political, Honor, World

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• The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Religious, Strong, Years

  "Peace: 1991-1995". World Scientific publication, p. 338, 1997.

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• All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

  Mark Twain

  Land, Feet, America

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.648, eKitap Projesi

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• We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ...

  Ariel Sharon

  West, Partnership, States

  Ariel Sharon's Speech at the Mideast summit, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2003.

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• The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

  Bert Holldobler

  Nuclear, World, Weapons

  Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (1994). “Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration”, Belknap Press

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• Like other countries in the world, China must uphold its own sovereignty, territorial integrity and development interests. At the same time, we are willing to properly handle differences and disagreements in state-to-state relations in accordance with the basic norms governing international relations and the principle of mutual understanding, mutual accommodation, dialogue and consultation.

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Integrity, Differences

  The Wall Street Journal Interview, www.wsj.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Integrity, Destiny

  Source: time.com

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• However you define territorial ambitions, it need not be a country that's right next to the U.S. for it to exercise its extraterritorial or territorial ambitions.

  Vijay Prashad

  Country, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It is confidently believed that our system may be safely extended to the utmost bounds of our territorial limits.

  James K. Polk

  May, Limits, Bounds

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• Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

  Murray Rothbard

  Organization, Use, Coercion

  Murray Newton Rothbard (19??). “The Anatomy of the State”, p.11, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The fight against terrorism is something very real and practical for us. This is a fight to preserve our territorial integrity, and in this sense we need to have the instruments and create an environment in Russia that would make it impossible for the international terrorist organisations to achieve the aims they have set for themselves here.

  Vladimir Putin

  Integrity, Real, Fighting

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• Unless the Arab states give Israel formal recognition, within secure, recognised and mutually agreed boundaries, as a permanent feature of the geography and politics of the Middle East. But if Israel is to obtain this recognition, she must, in a settlement, put an end to the territorial occupation which she has maintained since the war of 1967; the nine members of the European Community have declared that this is an essential element in a settlement. On behalf of the British Government I underline that need today.

  Anthony Crosland

  War, Government, Israel

  Speech to the UN General Assembly, October 5, 1976.

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• It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

  Adolf Hitler

  Europe, Lasts, Claims

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• Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.

  Maggie Nelson

  Art, Attention, Enough

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• It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Space, Self, Land

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• In the frameworks of a peace agreement, a government under my leadership would agree to make real territorial concessions but will not compromise our security borders. We want there to be less friction. We want to remove outposts to help the Palestinian population. We will not reoccupy the Palestinian population.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Real, Government, Agreement

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• We are now facing a difficult situation in Peru, where there are attempts to cut back the territorial rights of the indigenous peoples, including moves to divide, fragment and privatise our communal organisations. Now more than ever, it is a matter of urgency for us to consolidate our own indigenous alternatives for development.

  Evaristo Nugkuag

  Moving, Cutting, Rights

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• China's limited military power is for the sake of preserving national sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

  Li Zhaoxing

  Military, Integrity, Sake

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• We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Doe, Height, Compromise

  Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”

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• During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown.

  Saddam Hussein

  Iraq, Rights, Arrogance

  Saddam Hussein (1981). “Statement of H.E. Mr. Saddam Hussein, President of the Republic of Iraq, on the Iraq-Iranian conflict: before the third summit meeting of the Islamic Conference, 19-22 Rabi'i-al Awal, 1401, 25-28 January, 1981, Saudi Arabia”

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• As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Mistake, Drawing, Amplify

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.

  Peter Padfield

  War, Army, Fighting

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