Quotes About Global

The global financial collapse exposed the longstanding myth that commercial exchange is a primary institution. There are no examples in history where people created commercial markets and exchange before creating a culture.

Christians are viewed unfavorably in much of the world today and in many countries face outright persecution from hostile governments.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

Only when we prove that international law and the human rights of all mankind are greater than any villain can we vanquish evil.

I have so much respect for my mom and all the women across the world.

Was hatte er in dieser Stadt, in diesem verrückt gewordenen Steinbaukasten, zu suchen? Blumigen Unsinn schreiben, damit die Menschheit noch mehr Zigaretten rauchte als bisher? Den Untergang Europas konnte er auch dort abwarten, wo er geboren war. Das hatte er davon, dass er sich einbildete, der Globus drehe sich nur, solange er ihm zuschaue. Dieses lächerliche Bedürfnis, anwesend zu sein!

What's going on outside, Ravic?" "Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide and at the same time deluding itself about what it's doing." "Will there be war?" "Everyone knows that there will be war. What one does not yet know is when. Everyone expects a miracle." Ravic smiled. "Never before have I seen so many politicians who believe in miracles as at present

I think it is more of a kind of fever, says Albert. No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is. We didn't want the war, the others would say the same thing--and yet half the world is in it all the same.

As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all.

world arms budget of 204 billion dollars

In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found.

Air France's in-flight magazine.

Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.

Rather than the answer, the Internet is actually the central question about our connected twenty-first-century world.

The Good World Project. This too made Winter smile his wintry smile. "To silence the voices of hate that divide us—this is not controversial, this is simply the right thing to do. To direct the resources of all nations toward humanity's shared objectives—this is not controversial. It's the right thing to do. To heal the planet from the wounds inflicted on her . . .

He knew nothing about policy and taxes or what makes a people, and now, God help him, he was like those kids who think their country is Google. 'You're just not going deep enough,' Luke said. 'Money has imploded. Religion has gone mad. Privacy is disappearing. The ice-cap is melting and children are starving to death. And you want to sing an old song about national togetherness.

But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.

When Churchill was twenty, the British Empire covered more than one-fifth of the earth's land surface

Self-interest and cosmopolitan tolerance combine to explain the cultural allure of the global city for immigrants and professionals.." (ch 6)

The words of Hannah Arendt, written to describe her own sense of statelessness and exile in the turmoil of World War Two, ring as true in the supposedly new reality of the "global village" today as the day they were written. "Contemporary history," Arendt wrote, "has created a new kind of human being—the kind that are put in concentration camps by their foes and internment camps by their friends."22

It is not possible to create peace in the Middle East by jeopardizing the peace of the world.

At the same time, the fraction of the world's population in extreme poverty fell from 84 to 24 percent. This

Global poverty is a cosmopolitan idea and its measurement must be performed on a cosmopolitan basis.