Globalization Quotes - Page 4

• Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom—is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

  Vandana Shiva

  Self, Ideas, Needs

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• People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  People, Realizing, Circulation

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• I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.

  Franklin Foer

  Thinking, Islam, Responsible

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

  Richard Grasso

  Country, Economic Globalization, World

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• If we want to create new rules of globalization, then we can't just think in terms of the nation state. The nation state has long offered protection. But it suffers from the fact that many citizens increasingly fear that it can no longer protect them: The threat of transnational terrorism is growing. Freedom of movement rules in Europe facilitate social dumping. Regardless of the make-up of the next government, it must have clear ideas on how to overcome the lack of direction of recent years.

  Martin Schulz

  Thinking, Long, Suffering

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.

  Arlo Guthrie

  America, Greed, Faults

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• If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

  Fredric Jameson

  Reality, Resistance, West

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

  William Greider

  Regimes, Instruments, Relation

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• A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

  Sharon Begley

  Coffee, Weekend, Impact

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• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  Omar Bongo

  Ends, States, Diplomacy

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• Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Nihilism, Today, Terrorism

  "The spirit of terrorism" by Jean Baudrillard, ("The Violence of the Global"), 2003.

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• Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

  John B. Larson

  Government, Long, Tools

  "Globalization: A Rendezvous with Reality" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2007.

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• Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

  Fatos Nano

  Issues, Borders, Today

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• I am not someone who believes we should build a fence around our country but I do believe there ought to be some fairness with respect to the rules of this globalization.

  Byron Dorgan

  Country, Believe, Fairness

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• The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

  Kenny Ausubel

  Mass Destruction, Economic Globalization, Weapons

  "The 11th Hour". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

  Evo Morales

  Unemployment, Misery, Economic

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.

  John F. Kerry

  Jobs, Technology, Reality

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• I would define globalization as the freedom for my group of companies to invest where it wants when it wants, to produce what it wants, to buy and sell where it wants, and support the fewest restrictions possible coming from labour laws and social conventions.

  Percy Barnevik

  Law, Support, Groups

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• The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Space, Next, Aviation

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

  Dan Lipinski

  Missing You, Jobs, Data

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• Desperation is the result of globalization.

  Tariq Ali

  Desperation, Results

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• Today, we jump into this globalization of the economy and the internet age.

  Ai Weiwei

  Age, Today, Internet

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

  Angela Davis

  Economic Globalization, Movement, Results

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We've got to demonstrate why European unity and integration, our vast single market, our single currency, equip us with the strength to embrace globalization.

  Peter Mandelson

  Europe, Unity, Single Relationship

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