Globalization Quotes - Page 16

• The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

  James Surowiecki

  Benefits, May, Chance

  "Penny-Wise" by James Surowiecki, www.newyorker.com. September 27, 2004.

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• Many of the fights that are going on are not ones that the United States has either started or have a role in. The Shia-- Sunni split, the dictatorships that have suppressed people's aspirations, the increasing globalization without any real safety valve for people to have a better life. We saw that in Egypt. We saw a dictator overthrown, we saw Muslim Brotherhood president installed and then we saw him ousted and the army back.

  Hillary Clinton

  Real, Army, Fighting

  "Democratic debate transcript: Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley in Iowa". www.cbsnews.com. November 14, 2015.

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• We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.

  Bruce Tulgan

  Technology, Profound, Competition

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• Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Media, Organization, World

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• In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Thinking, America, Important

  Interview with Sarah Fay, staging.believermag.com. March 2007.

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• I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

  Franklin Foer

  Thinking, Hands, Islam

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

  Franklin Foer

  Names, Sound, Ends

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century – every case of a poor nation that worked its way up to a more or less decent, or at least dramatically better, standard of living – has taken place via globalization, that is, by producing for the world market rather than trying for self-sufficiency.

  Paul Krugman

  Taken, Successful, Past

  "Enemies of the WTO", Slate Magazine, November 24, 1999.

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• It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Government, People, Political

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