Quotes About Globalization

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

America ships tons of sugar cookies to Denmark and Denmark ships tons of sugar cookies to America. Wouldn't it be more efficient just to swap recipes?

On our crowded planet there are no longer any internal affairs!

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

The principle of equality, which is at the core of democratic values, has very little meaning in a world in which global oligarchy is taking over.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.

Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience.

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Foreign experiences increase both cognitive flexibility and depth and integrativeness of thought

God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Ahora que esta amenaza [la agresión soviética] ha sido eliminada, han surgido otros problemas... Existe un enorme incentivo para trabajar cooperativamente. Pero las fuerzas del nacionalismo, el proteccionismo y los conflictos religiosos avanzan en dirección contraria. El nuevo orden mundial debe desarrollar un mundo cooperativo y encontrar nuevos medios para reprimir dichas fuerzas divisorias

They had nationalities even: Thai eggplant, Chinese eggplant, Italian eggplant. The United Nations of eggplants terrified me because I knew the oblong purple vegetable as baingan, brinjal in English, and I could cook it in five different ways. Would this exotic brinjal still yield to my hands?

Raum ist der Ausdruck der Gesellschaft.

Manuel Castells

Hoy las pulgas de la peste negra se han refugiado en las costuras de la Red, cuyos enlaces expanden una imbecilidad planetaria con fiebre y delirios en la mayoría de los usuarios, que no cesan de llenar de vómitos todo el espacio.

Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and 10 percent of the value of U.S. imports.

certainly, no one in the early days of container shipping foresaw that this American-born industry would come to be dominated by European and Asian firms, as the U.S.-flag ship lines, burdened by a legacy of protected markets and heavy regulation, proved unable to compete in a fast-changing world.

The container is at the core of a highly automated system for moving goods from anywhere, to anywhere, with a minimum of cost and complication on the way. The container made shipping cheap, and by doing so changed the shape of the world economy.

The media have undertaken a similar reconsideration. Since the late 1980s, commentators have filled columns and airwaves with glib chatter about globalization, as if it were merely a matter of bits and bytes and corporate cost-cutting.