Globalisation Quotes - Page 2

• There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed.

  Barack Obama

  Frustration, Needs, Left

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Sovereignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalisation.

  Richard N. Haass

  States, Sovereignty, Ifs

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• If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more by blowing up an Oxfam shop because people can't understand the motive.

  J. G. Ballard

  People, Office, Shells

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• Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

  Margaret Hodge

  Party, Political, Immigration

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• Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more civilised than it is right now.

  Peter Ellyard

  Next, Generations, Development

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• Incidentally, I don't think there is a non-adjectival 'globalisation'. What we have now is a particular form: dominated by finance and multinational corporations and by a rhetoric (though not a reality) of 'free trade' and market forces. So I'm not a localist. I'm an internationalist, but one who believes (a) that such a thing is really only possible through a prior grounding and (b) that the terms of our present globalisation have to be challenged politically.

  Doreen Massey

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge step backwards for the country and would weaken it considerably. In the era of globalisation, "splendid isolation" is not a smart option.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Smart, Cutting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• When globalisation means that many of the services that individual governments used to have direct power over are privatised, in education and health, even prison services, nonetheless national sovereignty still needs to be exercised.

  Mary Robinson

  Mean, Government, Needs

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• In an era of globalisation, AIESEC's programmes have helped young people around the world to develop a broader understanding of cultural socio-economic and business management issues.

  Kofi Annan

  Issues, People, Understanding

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• Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

  Richard N. Haass

  Needs, Sovereignty

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• The European Union's enlargement is part of the natural process of integration and globalisation that is underway in the world today.

  Vladimir Putin

  World, Unions, Enlargement

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• If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that the globalisation gurus seem altogether to have foregone), and a challenge (how negotiate difference, how to address inequality, and so forth).

  Doreen Massey

  Differences, Space, Challenges

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

  Iain McGilchrist

  Years, Culture, World

  Iain McGilchrist (2009). “The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World”, p.436, Yale University Press

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• Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Moving, Mean

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• Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it.

  Martin Jacques

  Distance, Tolerance, World

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but in the interests of people, not concentrations of state-private power.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, Movement, Significant

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• Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.

  Vandana Shiva

  Citizens, Disappear, States

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• Globalisation means indeed everything is global but there are still very specific centres of power, especially when it comes to media and news.Misinformation about some attacks is going to affect how emotionally involved the audience is going to get. In the end, an emotional ranking is artificially created when it comes to casualties.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Emotional, Media

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• Being open to the concept that globalisation is only 10-20% complete leaves room for some expectation that there might be more gains to be achieved from further integration.

  Pankaj Ghemawat

  Expectations, Might, Rooms

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• The EU should be concentrated on adapting to globalisation and global competitiveness, not building more powerful centralised institutions in Brussels.

  William Hague

  Powerful, Building, Should

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• The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us resist irrational shifts in the market.

  Dominique Strauss-Kahn

  Giving, Tools, Helping

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• Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises.

  Nicolas Bourriaud

  Stress, Latin, Ideas

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• In a world where globalisation wants to turn everybody into the same thing, I think that anything that allows you to go to another place or be in another world has got to be celebrated.

  Gwenno

  Thinking, World, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• The problem is capitalism. The problem is that in order to sell seven billion people on the necessity of globalisation, we've created a moral universe where people who do not work to create profit are considered less than human, and used as surplus labour to drive down the cost of wages.

  Laurie Penny

  Order, People, Cost

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