Globalization Quotes

• I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

  Pope Francis

  Justice, People, Poverty

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• Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Technology, Able

  Source: time.com

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• It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

  Kofi Annan

  Reality, Law, Economic Globalization

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If globalization is to succeed, it must succeed for poor and rich alike. It must deliver rights no less than riches. It must provide social justice and equity no less than economic prosperity and enhanced communication.

  Kofi Annan

  Communication, Rights, Justice

  FaceBook post by Kofi Annan from Feb 20, 2017

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• Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

  Nelson Mandela

  Powerful, Mean, Responsibility

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My second piece of advice is to stay global. As the world continues to change and we become more connected to each other, globalization will bring both benefits and disruptions to our lives. But either way, it's here, and it's not going away.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Advice, Going Away

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• Globalization is incredibly efficient but also so far incredibly unjust.

  Pascal Lamy

  Inspiring, Unjust, Economic

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• The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

  Anita Roddick

  Powerful, Ladders, Rich

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take It Personally: How to Make Conscious Choices to Change the World”, HarperThorsons

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• Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.

  Michael Froman

  Agreement, Shapes, Trade

  "Trade Negotiator Michael Froman Insists TPP Will Work". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 13, 2015.

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• This is a very exciting time in the world of information. It`s not just that the personal computer has come along as a great tool. The whole pace of business is moving faster. Globalization is forcing companies to do things in new ways.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Tools, Pace

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• Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!

  Marine Le Pen

  Mean, Slave, Unemployed

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• We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

  Nestor Kirchner

  Kind, Globalism

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• Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

  Arundhati Roy

  Colonialism, Mutants, World

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.183, Haymarket Books

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• Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

  Anita Roddick

  Names, Important, Rich

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global corporations to control. Global corporations are even now trying to commodify all remaining aspects of national cultures, not to mention indigenous cultures.

  Jerry Mander

  Trying, Culture, Roles

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• [Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

  Amartya Sen

  People, Economic Globalization, World

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• In today’s interconnected and globalized world, it is now commonplace for people of dissimilar world views, faiths and races to live side by side. It is a matter of great urgency, therefore, that we find ways to cooperate with one another in a spirit of mutual acceptance and respect.

  Dalai Lama

  Respect, Buddhist, Buddhism

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• Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Political, Economic Globalization

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Some even believe we (the Rockefeller family) are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.

  David Rockefeller

  Family, Believe, Evil Government

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.368, Random House

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• People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.

  Clare Short

  Morning, Accusing Me, People

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Squares

  1999 Business@the Speed of Thought (co-written with Collins Hemingway).

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• The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

  Paul Virilio

  Light, Doe, World

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• Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Media, People

  Source: time.com

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• Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Fragility, Facts

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.64, Routledge

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• Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

  Ulrich Beck

  Eye, Culture, Firsts

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