Quotes About Global

Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.

The decay of power is changing the world.

es impresionante el poco consenso que existe sobre la orientación de los cambios en nuestro mundo y las previsibles amenazas, por no hablar de la escasez de ideas realistas acerca de cómo hacerles frente.

vivimos en un mundo asediado por nuevas formas de violencia de baja intensidad pero de gran impacto.

en todo el mundo es fácil observar un renovado activismo político del poder judicial.

Over the last quarter-century—a period that included the Balkans and Iraq and negotiations with Iran, the Israeli-Palestinian issues and numerous other crises—I saw how multiple new forces and factors constrained even the richest and most technologically advanced powers. They—and by that I mean we—could rarely do any longer what we wanted.

la economía de China, a mediados de siglo, será casi el doble que la de Estados Unidos, la de India la seguirá de cerca y la Unión Europea ocupará el tercer puesto.

the decay of power has significantly altered the terms of global conflict.

una política exterior con ambiciones regionales, centrada solo en los vecinos inmediatos, está hoy al alcance de más países; los que no aprovechen esa oportunidad, se quedarán atrás.

un ejército moderno y de gran tamaño ya no basta para garantizar que un país pueda alcanzar sus objetivos estratégicos.

the form of citizen activism, global markets, and media scrutiny

In 1992, a US Fortune 500 CEO had a 36 percent chance of retaining his or her job for the next five years; in 1998, that chance was down to 25 percent. By 2005, the average tenure of an American CEO had dwindled to six years. And the trend is global. In 2011, 14.4 percent of CEOs of the world's 2,500 biggest listed companies left their jobs. Even in Japan, famous for its relative corporate stasis, forced succession among the heads of large corporations quadrupled in 2008.

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We didn't call it World War I. How could we imagine there'd be a second?

The outlay for defense was 4.6 percent of the GDP in 1950; by 1953 it had risen to 13.8 percent. In 1940 the federal budget devoted 16 percent to defense; in 1959, more than 50 percent. By 1955, the American alliance system circled the globe, and we were pledged to the defense of practically everybody, including a host of despots and autocrats. The

We all know that America is the worst country in the world, except for all the others.

That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

Today, if you look at financial systems around the globe, more than half the population of the world - out of six billion people, more than three billion - do not qualify to take out a loan from a bank. This is a shame.

Nor do piecemeal steps however well intended, even partially resolve problems that have reached a universal, global and catastrophic Character. If anything, partial `solutions' serve merely as cosmetics to conceal the deep seated nature of the ecological crisis. They thereby deflect public attention and theoretical insight from an adequate understanding of the depth and scope of the necessary changes.

Mankind is a single body and each nation a part of that body. We must never say "What does it matter to me if some part of the world is ailing?" If there is such an illness, we must concern ourselves with it as though we were having that illness.

Awakening is realizing that you are the citizen of the universe, rather than identifying yourself as the citizen of your own country or that of the world.

My identity is that I am an African, even though I consider myself to be the citizen of the universe.

Only money can speak a universal language that cannot be misinterpreted by anyone in our generation.

Poverty is a pandemic disease that must be cured, sooner or later.