Quotes About Global

Twenty years ago there were fewer than five hundred billionaires in the world. Now there were nearly three thousand. That was an enormous amount of wealth creation. For a very select few.

The scientists pushing Global Warming are all in it for climate study grants. Seriously, you never realized you can judo-kill that with just four words? Show… us… the… 'grants.

TCK builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the TCK's life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of similar background.

Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No geographer would try to teach exclusively from street maps. Yet most historians teach about the past of particular nations, or even of agrarian civilizations, without ever asking what the whole of the past looks like.

It is named the Web for good reason.

We are global citizens with tribal souls', said the Danish poet Piet Hein.

I have lost my heart! … Fascism has rendered a service to the entire world.

British influence is healthy and kindly, and makes for the general happiness and welfare of mankind.

A situation had been created where hundreds of officials had only to do their prescribed duty to their respective countries to wreck the world. They did their duty.

The tail of China is large and will not be wagged.

And do you know what that goal is? I went for the most obvious choice: Creating microburst hypnotropic flash-spam on a global scale? Immortality, Mr. Cséjthe! he exclaimed. Oh, too bad . . . Tell me that you've invented the next big marketing technology of the twenty-first century and you've got my attention. But Immortality? Why not throw World Domination in and cackle like a demented madman? Demented madman—now there was a nice redundancy . . .

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

I learned early that the one truly international quality among people of all races is xenophobia.

The right response to the non-problem of global warming is to have the courage to do nothing.

Starrett (1996) argued that, because we inhabit a global community, our civic responsibilities transcend the borders of nation-states.

You can't assume that because you have plenty to eat that everyone does.

It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola.

In the mid-1990s, while serving as senior editor for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, I proposed a thought experiment to test whether Buddhism could spread around the globe. That test consisted of a single question: Did Buddhism have a teaching that was so universal it could pass quickly from person to person without getting stopped in its tracks, leaping across national, ethnic, economic, and even religious boundaries?

the religious models that had existed up until then did not adequately prepare us. Only through a process of radical self-empowerment—which Ikeda, expanding upon a term used by Toda, called Human Revolution—could human beings address issues that big. They couldn't be dealt with effectively by any one people, nation, or religion, but only by humanity as a whole.

I hear good things about Xbox Live from some of my younger teammates. I think it would be fun to be able to challenge fans all over the world. It would be cool to be able to play some of my friends back home in the States. I'm looking forward to trying it.

If we are one world then the only patriotism can be for the world.

A young boy was asked by an old man, What is your dream?. The boy said, I want to build a country so I can adopt all homeless people from all over the world.

Don't forget to put some pressure on addressing the imperative issues that can benefit the world.

People of the world are not standing by for rhetorics in addressing the problems confronting the world, but for solutions.