Quotes About Globalization

The emergence of a unified Europe is one of the most revolutionary events of our time.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that...we need multilateral solutions.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

A few months after the great crisis I had the joy of seeing the line of caravans re-form on the banks of the Orontes; the oases were again the resort of merchants exchanging news in the glow of their evening fires, each morning repacking along with their goods for transportation to lands unknown a certain number of thoughts, words and customs genuinely our own, which little by little would take possession of the globe more securely than can advancing legions.

Neue Züricher Zeitung 07.07.2016: Menschen aus völlig unterschiedlichen politischen Lagern mit völlig unterschiedlicher Motivation stemmen sich gegen das Unüberschaubare, das Unberechenbare, gegen Globalisierung und Kapitalismus – und zwar buchstäblich mit den Ideen der Steinzeit.

Germany represented the future because it carried no colonial ballast

Sí, venía del país de los gauchos, pero no tenía nada de exótico ni de primitivo y su obra no alardeaba de color local.

One of the consequences of printing is that it tends to standardize language

Segundo's best friend Silvio traded appliances for clothes, designer clothes—well, not really, but he thought they were—Chinese-made Armani suits and Italian silk shirts from Vietnam, all with designer labels occasionally misspelled. As in the "Versache" pants.

much of the western world has a big hole where its sense of identity ought to be.

The famous United Nations statistic from a 2002 report—more books are translated into Spanish in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last thousand—suggests at the very minimum an extraordinarily closed world.

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

among the big corporations in America, none are domestic," he told me. "They're all over the world:

A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible - indeed, inevitable - the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

The long-heralded global village is almost upon us, but it will last for only a flickering moment in the history of mankind. Before we even realise that it has come, it will be superseded – by the global family.

With the historic abolition of long-distance charges on 31 December 2000, every telephone call became a local one, and the human race greeted the new millennium by transforming itself into one huge, gossiping family. Like

As soon as anyone on Earth could see and talk to anyone else by pressing a button, most of the need for cities vanished.

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.