Quotes About Global

No, Sir, it is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Human rights were cut off from the dream of globally fair distribution that the global south itself advocated during the 1970s.

Human rights advocates can work to extricate themselves from their neoliberal companionship, even as others mark their limitations, in order to restore the dream of equality to its importance in both theory and practice. If both groups are successful, they can save the ideal of human rights from an unacceptable fate: it has left the globe more humane but enduringly unequal.

Today China's economic power," Richard Nixon observed in 1994, "makes U.S. lectures about human rights imprudent. Within a decade it will make them irrelevant. Within two decades it will make them laughable.

The dynamism of Islam is the ongoing source of many relatively small fault line wars; the rise of China is the potential source of a big intercivilizational war of core states.

These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations

There are too many f***ing people on the planet. Everybody's got to stop having 40 kids. We need free access to birth control and health care for women.

People all around the world look different, they wear different kinds of clothes, prepare their food differently and speak different languages, but their hearts beat for the same emotions. This is the one and only universal human connection.

you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.

Got it in one. Air force brat. I'm from everywhere and nowhere.

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

Women the world over suffer restrictions.

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

The quickest way from St Petersburg to Kamchatka in furthest Siberia is still often westwards via New York.

Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

In what I think is the most serious problem the world faces, which is the population explosion, we will come I think to a time when measures that are not even dreamt of now will become necessary.

Making choices that improve things for all of us on the planet is an act of compassion, a simple act we can do any time we go shopping.

The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.