Quotes About Global

we begin to see that we are spiritually linked with people halfway around the world, and with those who lived hundreds, even thousands of years ago. We begin to see that we emerge from, and are the expressions of, a single consciousness that is limited by neither time nor space.

Racism consists in devaluing the humanity of certain people by dismissing it or playing it down (even when not intentional) at the same time as highlighting and playing up European philosophy, assuming it to be universal. It may be global, because it piggybacks on imperial expansion, but it certainly cannot be universal.

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.

The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. … I only know two types of wine — red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

Brave men don't belong to any one country. I respect bravery wherever I see it.

No nation on this globe should be more internationally minded than America because it was built by all nations.

The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.

Bamboo blooms rarely, maybe every sixty to one hundred years, but when the parent plant flowers, its offspring—no matter where in the world they are—also bloom.

The Franklin didn't only belong to Tasmanians. Nor our forests. They belonged to the world. We were custodians.

You could sit down with another mom, even one halfway around the world whose life was very different from your own, and find easy conversation, shared spirit,

This book sounds an alarm. The world needs—now—a global early-warning system capable of detecting and responding to new emerging infectious disease threats to health. There is no clearer warning than AIDS. Laurie Garrett has spelled it out clearly for us. Now we ignore it at our peril.

A new global iatrogenic form of malaria was emerging—"iatrogenic" meaning created as a result of medical treatment. In its well-meaning zeal to treat the world's malaria scourge, humanity had created a new epidemic.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Con el habitual destrozo cataclísmico con que se derrumba el pasado, se abrió paso la idea de que las nuevas guerras iban a encontrarse siempre en países pobres y sus alrededores. Cada vez más temas internacionales tenían como protagonistas a estos países con guerras internas.

The world was on the verge of a major pandemic of terrible lethality.

You can never have international peace as long as you have national poverty.

Por eso es imprescindible comprender a fondo las culturas del mundo. —Y añadió—: He aprendido no solo a valorar esto, sino también a apreciarlo. Lo que hace del mundo un lugar interesante son nuestras diferencias, no nuestras similitudes566.»