“The people have already determined Chechnya's status at the referendum - it is a unit of the Russian Federation. Its political status is not to be discussed any more.” PeoplePoliticalDeterminedUnitsFederationReferendumsChechnya Author:Akhmad Kadyrov
“The economy - once a great scatter of small productive units in autonomous balance, has become dominated by two or three hundred giant corporations, administratively and politically interrelated... The political order, once a decentralized set of several dozen states with a weak spinal cord, has become a centralized executive establishment which has taken up into itself many powers previously scattered... The military order, once a slim establishment in a context of distrust fed by state militia, has become the largest and most expensive feature of government.” TwoStatesGovernmentPoliticalOrderThreeEconomyTakenMilitaryBalanceHundredWeakCorporationsFeaturesGiantsExpensiveProductiveExecutivesFedsEstablishmentDozenUnitsDistrustCordsMilitiaSlimAutonomousSpinal Cord Author:C. Wright Mills
“Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.” MenPoliticalInfiniteTreatedSymbolsMathematicalOperationsBehaveZeroUnitsArithmetic Book:Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War Source: Dialogue with Death: The Journal of a Prisoner of the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War
“nation state as a fundamental unit of man's organized life has ceased to be the principal creative force: International banks and multinational corporations are acting and planning in terms that are far in advance of the political concepts of the nation-state.” MenStatesPoliticalForceNationsTermActingCreativeConceptsFundamentalsInternationalPlanningCorporationsOrganizedPrincipalUnitsMultinationalsMultinational CorporationsOrganized Life Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“So on behalf of a well-oiled unit of people who came together to serve something greater than themselves, congratulations.” PeopleWellsHumorTogetherPoliticalGreaterUnitsCongratulationsBehalfPolitical Humor Author:George W. Bush