Quotations on Globalization
Submitted by Megan L. Stivison on January 12, 2010 – 9:44 pmNo Comment
- Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.
—Marianne Williamson (American author and speaker) - It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
—Kofi Annan (Ghanaian diplomat, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize) - In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.
—The Dalai Lama - People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
—Clare Short (British Labour Party Politician) - We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.
—John Stott (English author and Anglican clergyman) - The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
—Thomas Merton - Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
—Mohatma Gandhi - Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
—Jimmy Carter quotes (39th US President, 2002 Nobel Peace Prize) - The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world’s population.
—Bill Bryson (American travel writer) - Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.
—John J. Sweeney - Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature — like wind or water.
—Bill Clinton (42nd US President) - It will be good for our souls because global poverty is an affront and confronting the challenge is simply the right thing to do.
—Bill Clinton (42nd US President) - No generation has had the opportunity, as we now have, to build a global economy that leaves no-one behind. It is a wonderful opportunity, but also a profound responsibility.
—Bill Clinton (42nd US President) - The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
—Bill Gates - The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.
—Marshall McLuhan - Globalization could be the answer to many of the world’s seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to ensure equity and justice.
—Sharan Burrow (Australian labor activist) - I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of ‘us’ and ‘them’.
—The Dalai Lama - The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
—Jared Diamond (American author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) - Let observation with extensive view,
Survey mankind, from China to Peru;
Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife,
And watch the busy scenes of crowded life;
—Samuel Johnson (English poet, critic and author. 1709-1784) - We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.
—Peter L. Berger - The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
—Fredric Jameson - And even though everybody hates the Americans, they’re still watching American movies.
—Roland Emmerich - Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it’s inevitable, we’ve also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it’s not uncontrollable.
—Peter Mandelson - Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.
—Ulrich Beck (German sociologist and professor) - Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won’t create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
—Jared Diamond (American author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) - We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
—Gerhard Schroeder - It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day’s events in Asian markets.
—Larry Summers - European imperialism long ago made Tahiti a distant suburb of Paris, the missionaries made it a suburb of Christ’s kingdom, and the radio made it a suburb of Los Angeles.
—Cedric Belfrage - To meet an old friend in a distant country is like the delight of rain after a long drought
—Chinese proverb - The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
—Dan Quayle (former Vice President of the United States) - Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it’s a phenomenon of globalization.
—Lawrence Summers - In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
—Hillary Clinton
