Quotes About Globalization

Qué acaso no es un interés directo de la Casa Blanca defender los negocios de las empresas americanas en lugar de favorecer a nuestros competidores de cualquier parte del mundo?

Trees and branches are what nation states cling to; waves are what markets do.

My real adversary has no name, no face, no party. It will never be elected, yet it governs - the adversary is the world of finance.

Modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and not of it.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

Even though Silicon Valley's monopolies exist for the sake of profit, they view themselves as revolutionary agents, elevating the world to the state of oneness that Brand spent his life chasing.

The Third World today faces Europe like a colossal mass whose project should be to try to resolve the problems to which Europe has not been able to find the answers.

America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.

In general, the well-off have the money to outsource their deforesting as they buy food and other commodities grown by clearing land in other countries. As we have seen, they don't stop deforesting, they just do it somewhere far from home.

Kapitalisme lanjut memperdagangkan banyak hal yang dulunya tidak dianggap sebagai komoditas.

On a beau accuser l'Occident de répandre ses erreurs dans le monde entier, encore faut-il quelqu'un qui les accepte.

Margaret Crawford, "The World in a Shopping Mall," in Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, ed. Michael Sorkin (New York: Noonday Press, 1992), p.

The problem with people was that everyone saw other nations from far away. Saw them as big mountainous blobs. Foreigners. Strange. Got it. Up close, it was hard to see people that way. Each was so distinctive.

The fact that the entire globe now operates according to the same economic princi­ples—­production or­ga­nized for profit using legally ­free wage labor and mostly privately owned capital, with decentralized coordination—is without historical pre­ce­dent.

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.

When they make it a main objective to increase exports, most of them do not realize that they necessarily make it a main objective ultimately to increase imports.

We are very like the English, — are, in fact, English under a different sky.

Technology serves to institute new, more effective, and more pleasant forms of social control and social cohesion. The totalitarian tendency of these controls seems to assert itself in still another sense—by spreading to the less developed and even to the pre-industrial areas of the world, and by creating similarities in the development of capitalism and communism.

It's a mutual, joint-stock world, all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.

It's a mutual, joint-stock world, in all meridians. We cannibals must help these Christians.

Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.

Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia.

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

Few years ago, it was completely different. Now you go to any country, city, or continent and just say 'Bollywood,' and they will know. So, it means everybody is watching everything.