Globalization Quotes

• Trade reform has also been linked to increased income disparity as skilled workers have captured more benefits from globalization than their unskilled counterparts.

  

  Stephen F. Lynch
  • Benefits
  • Globalization
  • Disparity

• 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
  • Politicians
  • Globalization
  • Processes

• The privileged elites are part of the globalization moment that we live in.

  

  Ashraf Ghani
  • Part
  • Globalization
  • Elites

• Globalization is the next big art world idea.

  

  Noel Carroll
  • Idea
  • Globalization
  • Art World

• The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Economy
  • Economic
  • Prove

• It is increasingly difficult to find examples of warfare that are unaffected by globalization.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Globalization
  • Warfare
  • Unaffected

• The globalization that has swept away the barriers to the movement of goods, ideas and people has also swept with it barriers that confined and localized security threats.

  

  Mohamed ElBaradei
  • Security
  • Movement
  • Confined

• One cannot understand globalization, and many of its problems, without understanding neo-liberalism.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Understanding
  • Problems
  • Liberalism

• 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
  • Different
  • Culture
  • Pleasure

• If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Benefit
  • Globalization

• The polar view, as it was for Marx, is that it was not material factors, but rather ideal factors, that are the main drivers of globalization.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Factors
  • Drivers
  • Globalization

• Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

  

  Paul Samuelson
  • Support
  • Benefits
  • Globalization

• Our resistance to this war should be our resistance to profit at the cost of human life. Because that is what these drums beating over Iraq are really about. This is about business.

  

  Tim Robbins
  • War
  • Should
  • Cost

• In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that must change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Excess
  • Examples

• In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Girls
  • Marginalization

• The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Intelligent
  • Accepting
  • Approach

• One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Property
  • Paradox

• If you've got communities that feel they've been left behind, if you've got - as you do in Britain at the moment, you have communities that believe they're being changed by immigration, that they don't have job opportunities, and that they're disregarded and that they don't - they've got no stake in a future which embraces globalization, you've got to address that issue.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• One thing, change, is what everyone says. The question is, what type of change? What's the right change to produce a different outcome for the people left behind by globalization?

  

  Tony Blair
  • Different
  • Behinds
  • Produce

• To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Economy
  • Borders
  • Globalization

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