Quotes About Globalization

I've said it once and I will say it again, why can't everyone just speak English? The Americans give it a bit of a go — why can't other nations?

It's not called the world wide web for nothing. You can get sucked in and trapped there".

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world

Ming Dynasty porcelain, Mao jackets, cheap toys and electrical goods, everything, though not pot-stickers, or crispy duck and pancakes and sweet and sour pork and fortune cookies, the fact that she never ate her fortune cookie though, just opened it to see her fortune.

A great many contemporary artists from hugely diverse backgrounds are currently approaching the prospect of cultural mixing...

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

The problem with capitalism is that we have a global theology without morality, without a Bible. And that's dangerous, he warns - we're not going to be able to exist in a global context if we are the bastards of our business.

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

Will America be the death of English? I'm glad I asked me that. My well-thought-out mature judgment is that it will.

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.

We can't stop a baby in Africa from starving to death... but we can afford enough technology and weaponry to blow the world up a million times over.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

Can trade help lift people out of poverty? It can, and it has.

Transatlantic links are very important.

Do I think every culture will embrace location technology? Yes.

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

Luxury hasn't been democratised; it's been globalised.

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.