Globalization Quotes - Page 10

• Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

  Franklin Foer

  Soccer, Fundamentals, Facts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

  Jeremy Seabrook

  Mean, Rights, Abuse

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• The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

  Arundhati Roy

  Dissent

  Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.193, Haymarket Books

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• Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?

  Anne Applebaum

  Moving, Long, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.

  Anne Applebaum

  Real, Marine, Technological Change

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.

  David Remnick

  Real, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure.

  Barack Obama

  America, Safety, World

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.304, Canongate Books

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• Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”

  Walden Bello

  Choices, Community, Promise

  Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

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• Globilization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does.

  Martin Khor

  Country, Expectations, Democracy

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• It's a little bit about being a global citizen, with all the United Nations positive umph that there is with that phrase - it's about being a positive do-gooder. But it's also: how can I participate in globalization in a really clear way? Like: don't leave the house unless you can bring something worthy into the world. And so Nicaragua changed the way that I want to do things.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  House, Nicaragua, Citizens

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Capitalist exploitation and cartels and monopolies are the enemies of underdeveloped countries. On the other hand a regime which is completely oriented towards the people as a whole and based on the principle that man is the most precious of all possessions, will allow us to go forward more quickly and more harmoniously, and thus make impossible that caricature of society where all economic and political power is held in the hands of a few who regard the nation as a whole with scorn and contempt.

  Frantz Fanon

  Country, Men, Hands

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• Globalization, meaning the global expansion of a market economy, is the only way we can guarantee widespread prosperity and peace. A lot of nations are just so small, that unless they can sell their goods and services on the market they're never going to develop, they don't have an internal market that's big enough to sustain anything.

  Douglas Massey

  Expansion, Guarantees, Way

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.

  Charles Ferguson

  Running, Powerful, Small Numbers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.

  David Titley

  Technology, World, Ships

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I would suggest is that in the latter 1990s it is extremely important to look at the predicament of black people within the context of the globalization of capital.

  Angela Davis

  People, Black, Important

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Moving, Past, Different

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• We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations - that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor.

  Angela Davis

  Jobs, Moving, Numbers

  PBS Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

  Milton Friedman

  Century, Trade, 19th Century

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

  Anita Roddick

  Judging, Leader, Lines

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• I am against portraying China as the demon of the global community. China has grasped more quickly than other countries what globalization means and what it demands. The country has learned how to use other people's innovations for itself. India, incidentally, is not far behind China in this respect. Both are not nations in the European sense, but rather cultural communities with enormous markets. The challenge of the future is to work out how to deal with that.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It’s one thing if everyone wears the same shoes or drinks the same soda. But the world of literature is the last place in which globalization should mean homogeneity.

  Benjamin Moser

  Mean, Shoes, Literature

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• I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

  Robert Reich

  Mean, Obscurity, Gone

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• When we think of globalization we are thinking in part of structures and institutions that have been developed over time and that have allowed us to become more interdependent and interrelated. But the development, the extraordinary development, of those structures and institutions has not fundamentally transformed our humanity. We are still those animals with fears and anxieties and insecurities in the face of death and dread and disappointment and disease.

  Cornel West

  Disappointment, Thinking, Animal

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• An unreflective passion for social justice may be one of the biggest obstacles to creating peace and prosperity in the 21st century. While there are most certainly factory owners in China whom we would rightly regard as criminal in their treatment of their workers, it is very important not to confuse these incidents with the phenomenon of globalization. It is a good thing that Wal-Mart is encouraging more humane standards in its supplier's factories.

  Michael Strong

  Business, Passion, Creating

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• We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Needs, Ethics

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