Quotes About Global

Not all Americans talk like me. The states in America are kind of like your countries over here,

Responding to Fukuyama's thesis in 1989, Allan Bloom was full of foreboding about the gathering revolts against a world that 'has been made safe for reason as understood by the market', and 'a global common market the only goal of which is to minister to men's bodily needs and whims'.

How did general prosperity encompass the entire world? Here the answer is that prosperity rises, first slowly and then increasinly fast, in all places where people can engage in peaceful and voluntary exchanges. Trade and the innovations that it makes possible provide the only known escape route from poverty.

Every war, every crime against humanity among the damned of the Earth is supposed to be somewhat our fault and ought to lead us to confess our guilt, to pay endlessly for being a member of the bloc of wealthy nations.

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world?

One night, Walt and I looked out over the audience and saw hundreds of Olympic athletes from around the world, people of every race, language and nation. Walt's eyes shone as he said, "Isn't that amazing? Here are all of these people, different in so many ways, yet united by their hopes and goals and dreams. This is how the world should be.

Babies all over the world are what I like to describe as 'citizens of the world.' They can discriminate all the sounds of all languages, no matter what country we're testing and what language we're using.

The American Century is over. Pax Americana has come to a close. Gone now is all the hubristic chatter of an American Empire. Gone is the "unipolar world" where the United States was the undisputed hegemonic power.

In the early 1960s, when Maurice Hilleman wanted to make his vaccine, measles virus was killing eight million children in the world every year.

The impediment to the building of Babel—that man must fill the earth—would be eliminated. At that moment it would again be possible for the whole earth to be of one language and one speech. And if that were to happen, paradise could not be far behind.

I am an ardent believer in universal happiness. I would like everyone in the world to have satisfying, fulfilling work, for everyone to earn enough to escape the menace of poverty, but I have no idea how to achieve such worthy goals. Therefore, I will pass over these matters in silence.

Don't tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we're too poor to associate with.

A mystique of history and heritage surrounds the New York Yankees. It's like the old days revived. We're loved and hated, but always in larger doses than any other team. We're the only team in any sport whose name and uniform and insignia are synonymous with their entire sport all over the world.... the Yankees mean baseball to more people than all the other teams combined.

Our selectivity in who to care about makes a difference. About twenty years ago, Walter Isaacson expressed his frustration over the American public's focus on the crisis in Somalia and relative disregard of the (objectively greater) tragedy in the Sudan, when he plaintively asked: "Will the world end up rescuing Somalia while ignoring the Sudan mainly because the former proves more photogenic?" Before

An African leader and I were talking about our various perspectives on the involvement of the United States in several global conflicts.' He startled me with this observation: "From most of the world's perspective, the USA doesn't have friends in the world; it has `interests.

How different would our world be today if there had been effective mission among those who a few years ago felt free to make huge personal fortunes out of subprime mortgages in the United States? The results of the nonevangelization of that segment of American society has today had global outcomes effecting millions of lives.) So, start at home !31

2.Does the church in America have the humility to learn from us, or do they consider themselves to be the world's teacher? 3.Does the American church have the magnanimous spirit to work alongside us in genuine partnership that is based upon mutual respect and shared resources, or do they simply see us as their "partners" to fulfill their plans in our countries?

We went to the conference expecting to hear how the church in North America was leading the global church into the new millennium. In contrast, we left the conference praying, "Lord, please don't leave the church in North America behind as you move powerfully into the world.

The world we live in includes two Great Divides. Economically, the rich-poor divide calls us to lives of generosity. Theologically, the ways that we understand God and faith calls us to a globally expanded view of God.

This story forces us to ask ourselves this question: what struggles is my global family facing? Members of my family in many of the great urban centers of the world suffer from economic deprivation. What challenges does my family face in places like Sri Lanka or India or Egypt or Bolivia?

Those of us who want to interact globally will have to suspend some of our theological judgments and listen to how someone from another land is hearing the Scriptures, experiencing the power of God or applying the Bible to daily life.

Tame the assertiveness. Those of us who carry the Western "can-do" spirit, especially those of us from the United States, need to learn how to go into the world to serve rather than to lead. Although I've referred to the positive power of Western optimism, we need to tame it.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

For every $135 of public money spent on an asylum-seeker in Europe, just $1 is spent on a refugee in the developing world.