quotes about Globalization
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[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.
-- Amartya Sen -
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 -
Globalization is a fact of economic life
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
-- David Korten -
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So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones.
-- Fredric JamesonSource : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
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We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees
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Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.
-- Helen Fisher -
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new reality.
-- John B. LarsonSource : "Globalization: A Rendezvous with Reality" by John B. Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 31, 2007.
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In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.
-- John J. Sweeney -
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
-- John Kufuor -
I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.
-- John Shelton Reed -
Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
-- John Sweeney -
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There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
-- John Sweeney -
The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.
-- Joseph Estrada -
Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
-- Kevin WatkinsSource : "Winners and losers and the great divide" by Kevin Watkins, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2000.
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We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
-- Kofi Annan -
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
-- Lakhdar Brahimi -
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
-- Lawrence Summers -
Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.
-- Maajid Nawaz -
Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!
-- Marine Le Pen -
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We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.
-- Nestor Kirchner -
Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.
-- Omar Bongo -
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization
-- Peter L. Berger -
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We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.
-- Phil GrammSource : "McCain adviser talks of 'mental recession'" by Patrice Hill, www.washingtontimes.com. July 9, 2008.
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Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.
-- Pope Francis -
This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.
-- Richard Grasso -
Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.
-- Richard Stallman -
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I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
-- Stuart Townsend -
In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.
-- Subcomandante Marcos -
It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.
-- Tarja Halonen -
The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.
-- William Greider -
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Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.
-- Fernando PerezSource : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.
-- Fujio Mitarai -
It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years.
-- Keller Easterling -
The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.
-- Lewis Schiff -
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I don't even know what being left wing means anymore. I feel that the left/right spectrum has been so fundamentally scrambled primarily by the politics around globalization - and you saw it in Brexit, you saw it in the French election, you see it in our election, it's happening everywhere.
-- Lydia Polgreen -
Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.
-- Martin Schulz -
Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.
-- Michael Froman -
Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.
-- P. J. O'Rourke -
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I think the fashion industry, as a result of globalization, has undergone a uniformity. I'm not saying that's good or that's bad but that is my observation.
-- Patricia Field -
I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.
-- Philip Taaffe -
Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
-- Thomas P.M. Barnett -
Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.
-- Marine Le PenSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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I think that globalization is partly responsible for the spread of the hostile, radical forms of Islam.
-- Franklin FoerSource : 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 FoerSource : Source: www.motherjones.com
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The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.
-- John L. CastiSource : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.