Quotes About Global

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

Since turning professional at 18, I have travelled the world playing the game that I love and consider myself a global player. As the World No.1 right now, I wish to be a positive role model and a sportsperson that people respect, and enjoy watching.

Don't imagine that our world can't collapse: there is nothing inevitable about progress or peace, and the global and national social and political order we inhabit today is no more immune from catastrophe than the pre–World War II order.

Building relationships on a global scale requires putting human beings on the ground in regions all over the world—and only the Army has the manpower to do this.

Bluntly: the United States will need to accept some further loss of sovereignty in exchange for more just and effective mechanisms for solving collective global problems. No state can combat disease, climate change, or international terrorist organizations on its own--but any state can play a destructive and destabilizing role on its own.

All the currencies of Europe are relatives of the Dollar.

I realize then that the disappearance of a culture does not signify the disappearance of human value, but simply of certain means of expressing this value, yet the fact remains that I have no sympathy for the current European civilization and do not understand its goals, if it has any. So I am really writing for friends who are scattered throughout the corners of the globe.

But how could you measure your own pain against the pain of the world?

The school year in the United States is, on average, 180 days long. The South Korean school year is 220 days long. The Japanese school year is 243 days long.

Stouffer's point is that we form our impressions not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally—by comparing ourselves to people "in the same boat as ourselves." Our sense of how deprived we are is relative. This is one of those observations that is both obvious and (upon exploration) deeply profound, and it explains all kinds of otherwise puzzling observations.

At the end of the day, we all live in this world together and to practice bringing peace onto Twitter is a huge step into bringing peace into our world.

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Today's youth will determine if we're going to fail or succeed in ending global poverty by 2030

Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

There's a lot of sympathy, but some people in America don't care. They think Syria is a very faraway place and that it's none of their business.

A world government run by the UN will be like getting an old, purblind, half-deaf substitute teacher.

In the U.K., we have the best geography teachers in the world!

India is a youthful nation. Can't we think of exporting good teachers?

Sti picciotti parivano poter assorbiri tutto con 'na facilità che forsi era sulo di superfici, ma di 'na superfici enormi, globali, che era la superfici del munno 'ntero. A lui avivano 'nsignato di scinniri 'n profunnità, loro avevano 'mparato a navicari a mari aperto.

Every person who can, even at a sacrifice, make the voyage around the world should do so. All other travel compared to it seems incomplete, gives us merely vague impressions of parts of the whole.

I'm in this business for the defence of humanity,' he explained. 'You have to prepare for war to make peace.

David Hilbert, the towering mathematical intellect of the previous thirty years, had put it thus:9 'Mathematics knows no races … for mathematics, the whole cultural world is a single country'