Globalization Quotes
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You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.
Andy Grove
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Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy.
William O. Douglas
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One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.
David Howell Evans U2
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The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
William Greider
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
Bill Clinton
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One important point about the idea that there are multiple globalizations is the fact that it further complicates the whole idea of finding a point of origin for globalization.
George Ritzer
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The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
William Greider
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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
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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
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Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.
Ethan Zuckerman
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Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.
Evo Morales
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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
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Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.
Bill Gates
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It is absolutely sure that if globalization is not founded on moral values not only will it fail but it will bring about global calamities.
George Vithoulkas
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I support freedom and I support a free market economy, but it should be a socially oriented market economy. I support globalization, but it should be globalization with a human face.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
Paul Samuelson
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The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.
Elisabet Sahtouris
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While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization. For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.
Branko Milanovic
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We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.
Thomas Keating
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Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
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Trade and globalization are here to stay.
Danny K. Davis
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We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.
Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder
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We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.
Rene Girard