Quotes About Global

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

Good girls are found in every corner of earth. But unfortunately earth is round.

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

Everywhere in the world, men place all or most of the burden of raising children and maintaining the home on women, but pretend that this burden is not work; they do not reward it as work or count it as work in global accounting, in either developing.

He couldn't help thinking that all that money we were spending blowing up things and killing people so far away, making people the world over hate and fear us, would have been better spent on public education and libraries. It's hard to imagine that history won't prove him right, if it hasn't already.

America heals, but America is not the world.

Depression is taking a staggering toll on the modern world. Around 10 percent of the population can expect to become clinically depressed over the coming year. And things are likely to become worse. The World health Organization1 estimates that depression will impose the second-biggest health burden globally by 2020. Think about that for a moment. Depression will impose a bigger burden than heart disease, arthritis and many forms of cancer on both individuals and society in less than a decade.

More than 175 million people use Facebook. If it were a country, it would be the sixth most populated country in the world.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

In today's global economy, two billion people – more than 61 per cent of the world's employed population – make their living in the informal economy (ILO 2018a).

First and foremost, well over half of all workers globally, 90 per cent in developing countries and 67 per cent in emerging economies, are informally employed. It is only in developed countries that most workers (82 per cent) are formally employed (ILO 2018a). As

Someday our children, whom we love, may blame us for dishonoring America because we did not care enough about children 10,000 miles away [written, 1967].