Quotes About Global

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

None of this nine or ten nonsense and I don't care what the parish priest says. There will soon be so many people on this planet that it will be standing room only.

By relaxing the constraints that had underpinned the vast imbalances in the global distribution of knowledge, the ICT revolution unleashed a historic transformation that might be called the Great Convergence.

I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.

2,000 of the richest have more together than the bottom three and a half billion. That's a level of inequality that any system should be deeply ashamed of.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore he belongs to the world.

'Tis always morning somewhere in the world.

United Nations peacekeepers are going all over the world spreading AIDS even while they're trying to bring peace. What a supreme irony.

I do not think it too remote that we may come to regard the Earth, as some have suggested, as one organism, of which mankind is a functional part—the mind, perhaps.

The paving of the Kinshasa Highway affected every person on earth, and turned out to be one of the most important events of the twentieth century. It has already cost at least ten million lives, with the likelihood that the ultimate number of human casualties will vastly exceed the deaths in the Second World War

A hot virus from the rain forest lives within a twenty-four-hour plane flight from every city on earth. All of the earth's cities are connected by a web of airline routes. The web is a network. Once a virus hits the net, it can shoot anywhere in a day—Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, wherever planes fly.

sufficiently to produce worldwide agricultural collapse.

The nuclear family has far too often been the enemy of the global family and mature spiritual seeking.

In this global age, the world's problems are our problems.

The only group large enough to handle, the world's biggest, problems is the network of millions of local churches around the world. We have the widest distribution, largest group of volunteers, local credibility, the promises of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the inevitability of history.

How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.)

Firstly, we must widen our common literary world to include many more voices from beyond our comfort zones of the elite first-world cultures.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

But now he realized that, as a Jew, you could go anywhere in the world and always find someone to treat you like family.

there are more Muslims than Christians in the world. So somebody's church is wrong.

Never mind the world—I'm interested only in America. Are we in danger of becoming the world's policeman?' It's a reasonable question.

The Americans encircle us. They have troops in Japan, South Korea, Guam, Singapore, and Australia. As well as that, the Philippines and Vietnam are friends of the US. The Americans did the same thing to the Soviet Union—they called it 'containment.' And in the end the Russian Revolution was strangled. We have to avoid the fate of the Soviets, but we won't do it at the UN. Sooner or later we will have to smash the ring.

Are we in danger of becoming the world's policeman

China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. .