Quotes About Global

People in every country underestimate the proportion of their compatriots who say they are happy, by an average of 42 percentage points.

Though the United States and other Western nations are often accused of being misogynistic patriarchies, the rest of the world is immensely worse.

In the United States, Canada, and Australia, fewer than 3 percent of women report that their partners assaulted them in the previous year, but the reports from other countries are an order of magnitude higher: 27 percent in a Nicaraguan sample, 38 percent in a Korean sample, and 52 percent in a Palestinian sample.

For those who need data to be convinced, in global surveys of values in which every variable that social scientists like to measure is thrown into the pot (including income, education, and dependence on oil revenues), Islam itself predicts an extra dose of patriarchal and other illiberal values across countries and individuals.

There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion of nuclear power.

The economist Steven Radelet has pointed out that "the improvements in health among the global poor in the last few decades are so large and widespread that they rank among the greatest achievements in human history.

As the economist Max Roser points out, news sites could have run the headline 137,000 People Escaped Extreme Poverty Yesterday every day for the past twenty-five years.33 But they never ran the headline, because there was never a Thursday in October in which it suddenly happened. So one of the greatest developments in human history—a billion and a quarter people escaping from squalor—has gone unnoticed.

Half of the world's homicides are committed in just twenty-three countries containing about a tenth of humanity, and

Also, as Nils Petter Gleditsch and Halvard Buhaug have pointed out, even though an increasing proportion of the world's armed conflicts have involved Islamic countries and insurgencies over the past two decades (from 20 to 38 percent), it's not because those conflicts have increased in number.

The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.

My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.

I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.

People everywhere love Windows.

With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.

We never played China, India or Africa. We also haven't played Russia enough. I would love to play those places.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

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.

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.

We knew marriage could be difficult in the same way that we knew there were starving children in Africa.

The American Idea extends worldwide—not only because ours are universal, humanitarian values, but also because of a global system, an architecture, that derives from these same values of democracy, rights, and freedom, an architecture established by Americans and by other democracies.

Eight cereal grains (wheat, corn, rice, barley, sorghum, oats, rye, and millet) now provide 56 percent of the calories and 50 percent of the protein consumed on earth. Without these crops, the planet could not support six billion people. So

Si algo constituye una plaga, tal y como afirma el naturalista David Attenborough,186 o un cáncer, como señalaba el Club de Roma,187 quien lo erradique será un héroe, o un verdadero salvador planetario en este caso.

Seeing other cultures is the best way to learn which things you thought were universal but are actually local.