Quotes About Global

The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation.

the notion that we know all there is to know about people and their needs and that all these data are pinned down exactly and fully explained by the market, the state, sociological surveys, ratings, and everything else that turns people into the Global Anonymous.

if what i feel were equally distributed to the whole human family there would not be one cheerful face on earth

British territory did cover nearly a quarter of the earth.

A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.

the average citizen now has near-instantaneous access to information about events in every nation on earth.

La respuesta al terrorismo, personal y global, se encuentra en su propio lugar de origen: el corazón asustado. El terrorismo terminará cuando nos neguemos a vivir aterrorizados.

By one estimate, U.S. output per worker hour was double Germany's and five times Japan's.

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times has warned that if terrorism is rewarded in the Middle East, it will "be coming to a theatre near you.

The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human (and nonhuman) impoverishment.

Universal education is not only a moral imperative but an economic necessity, to pave the way toward making many more nations self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

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They had encountered fraud cases, even Ponzi schemes, before. But they had never faced anything on this scale. The tally of customer losses was staggering, and the victims were spread around the globe.

To transform home is to transform the world.

Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. —John F. Kennedy

The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as "human capital" or "assets." One seldom sees any reference in their literature or public declarations to the importance of developing full persons to assume the responsibilities of citizenship.

I've been lucky to travel through quite a bit of Europe and Australia, but I would love to do Asia and South America and South Africa.

The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!

Abra wants its payment network to outnumber all physical ATMs in the world.

While such numbers must always be regarded as broad estimates, one study has shown that each day sees some 78,000 new Christians worldwide and each week some 1,000 new churches are established in Asia, Africa, and Latin America (Wagner 1983:20-21). Since those figures were published it became known that in China alone the decade of the 1980s saw up to 20,000 new Christians per day.

Dominic invites us to discover how we can be still and contemplative in this frenetic global village. Otherwise, we shall not be able to offer anything nourishing to our contemporaries who are so hungry and thirsty for a word of life.