Quotes About Global

Simplify; small is beautiful; cherish the living earth; bless the community where you live; think globally, act locally; watch your boundaries; choose what is handmade with love; don't eat food you don't like; don't be deprived of firelight; don't take anything seriously; and don't let people get you down." Ember

Nineteen thirty-three was a global event because it was immediately recognized as having worldwide political implications;

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Discontinuities, irregularities, and volatilities seem to be proliferating rather than diminishing. In the world of finance, new instruments turn up at a bewildering pace, new markets are growing faster than old markets, and global interdependence makes risk management increasingly complex. Economic insecurity, especially in the job market, makes daily headlines. The environment, health

The earth is an indivisible whole, just as each of us is an indivisible whole.

That's why I think that cultivation, 'becoming a real human being,' really is the primary leadership issue of our time, but on a scale never required before. It's a very old idea that may actually hold the key to a new age of 'global democracy.

most of the problems faced by humankind concerns [concerned] our inability to grasp and manage the increasingly complex systems of our world.

DEATH BY CHINA Confronting the Dragon—A Global Call to Action

Worldwide, the poor leave a very small carbon footprint, but they will suffer the most from climate change.

If you are paying for something to drink when safe drinking water comes out of the tap, you have money to spend on things you don't really need. Around the world, a billion people struggle to live each day on less than you paid for that drink.

Reason is inherently expansionist. It seeks universal application.

Climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occurred in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

the deaths of children in poor countries from diarrhea, measles, and malaria have become part of the background of the world we live in, and if we know about it at all, we are likely to believe that it is a problem that will always be with us. But that isn't so. In the last two years, we have saved a million children. In the coming years, if we all give substantially more, we can save the entire 8.8 million.

I couldn't care less about politics, the culture wars. My only interest is to get people to care about Darfurs and Rwandas.

most of the world is bubbling with religious passions."1

When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.

The poor are poor, not stupid — and their living conditions are different in each country.

Facebook and a cartel of junior partners will leverage their platform power to establish a global financial surveillance system, on the back of public monetary systems. — Raúl Carrillo, Demand Progress

Neoliberalization has not been very effective in revitalizing global capital accumulation, but it has succeeded remarkably well in restoring, or in some instances (as in Russia and China) creating, the power of an economic elite. The theoretical utopianism of neoliberal argument has, I conclude, primarily worked as a system of justification and legitimation for whatever needed to be done to achieve this goal.

Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global totalitarian threat: Islamism ... .

Digital communication is twenty-five thousand miles wide and a half-inch deep.

My understanding was that it completed a person, sanding down the rough provincial edges and transforming you into a citizen of the world.

Ebola, not the thousands who had died of it in Africa but the single person who had it in Dallas.