147 Quotes About Globalization

Hatutakiwi kuishi kama raia wa Tanzania peke yake. Tunatakiwa kuishi kama raia wa dunia na watumishi wa utu, hasa katika kipindi hiki cha zama za utandawazi. Sina lazima ya kutoka nje kufanya utafiti wa kazi zangu siku hizi. Nje ninayo hapa ndani!

In an era of globalization, people recognize that they are part of a global society, but they have no idea how to make such a society work. So far, no unified vision or leadership has emerged to guide us in this endeavor. We have not yet found a way to expand the spiritual ideals of democracy so that they pertain to every human being, every animal, and every plant. Until we do, human civilization and the Earth's ecosystem will continue to be in peril.

We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic." –Bill Gerstenmaier

If you cannot peacefully coexist with many different cultures and beliefs, then you should probably not be living in the USA.

«En un mundo globalizado no puede descartarse la importancia del extranjero, del resto del mundo, y seguir hablando como si sólo existiera un único país. Los europeos forman parte de los terrestres convencidos de que todos tenemos un domicilio fijo, a pesar de que nuestro planeta viaja por el universo a velocidades superiores a doscientos kilómetros por segundo.»

Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them.

So it was not superior thinkers, inventors or businesses that made Europe rich, but the fact that European elites were less successful in obstructing them... This is somewhat similar to our era of globalization. More countries, in more places, now have access to the sum of humanity's knowledge, and are open to the best innovations from other places... If progress is blocked in one place, many others will continue humanity's journey. (217-218)

No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.