Globalization Quotes:

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

- Amartya Sen

topic: People, World, Globalization, Enriching, Economic Globalization

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

topic: Movement, Globalization, Results, Labor And Capital, Labor Movement

Globalization is a fact of economic life

- Carlos Salinas de Gortari

topic: Facts, Economic, Globalization

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

- David Korten

topic: Differences, Economic, Globalization, Economic Globalization, Internationalism

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 Jameson

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

topic: Thinking, Want, Globalization, Considerate, Be Considerate

We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

- Harry Belafonte

topic: America, Knees, Globalization, Corporate America

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

- Helen Fisher

topic: Views, Long, Globalization

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. Larson

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

topic: Reality, Globalization, Force, Unintended Consequences

In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it.

- John J. Sweeney

topic: Support, Leader, Globalization, Authoritarian Government

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

- John Kufuor

topic: Globalization, Mainstream, Higher Education

I don't think massification and globalization and all those other 'izations' are necessarily hostile to regionalism.

- John Shelton Reed

topic: Thinking, Globalization, Regionalism

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

topic: United States, Economy, Globalization, Burma, Global Economy

There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.

- John Sweeney

topic: Growing, Globalization, Consensus

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

topic: Pills, Painful, Globalization

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.

- Kevin Watkins

source: "Winners and losers and the great divide" by Kevin Watkins, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2000.

topic: Globalization, Produce, Inequality

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

topic: Faces, Globalization, Driven, Economic Globalization, Short Term

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

- Lakhdar Brahimi

topic: People, Realizing, Globalization, Circulation

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

- Lawrence Summers

topic: Globalization, Contagion, Phenomenon

Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

- Maajid Nawaz

topic: Benefits, Globalization, Utilizing

Globalization means using slaves to manufacture products that are then sold to the unemployed!

- Marine Le Pen

topic: Mean, Slave, Globalization

We must create a kind of globalization that works for everyone... and not just for a few.

- Nestor Kirchner

topic: Kind, Globalization, Globalism

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

- Noel Carroll

topic: Ideas, Next, Globalization

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

- Omar Bongo

topic: Globalization, Ends, States

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

- Peter L. Berger

topic: Culture, Globalization, Phenomenon

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

- Phil Gramm

source: "McCain adviser talks of 'mental recession'" by Patrice Hill, www.washingtontimes.com. July 9, 2008.

topic: Years, Lasts, Globalization

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity.

- Pope Francis

topic: May, Indifference, Globalization

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

topic: Country, Requirements, Globalization

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

- Richard Stallman

topic: Globalization, Good Things

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

- Stuart Townsend

topic: Environment, Realizing, Globalization

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

topic: Dancer, Tables, Globalization, Cabaret

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

topic: Law, People, Globalization

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

- William Greider

topic: Globalization, Instruments, Regimes, International Relations

Trips are part of humanity. Emigration is a part of humanity. And it's ever more dynamic due to globalization.

- Fernando Perez

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Humanity, Emigration, Globalization

Diversification and globalization are the keys to the future.

- Fujio Mitarai

topic: Keys, Globalization, Diversification

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

topic: Past, Trying, Globalization

The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.

- Lewis Schiff

topic: Technology, Globalization, Disruption, Professional Life

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

topic: Mean, Election, Globalization, Left Wing

Complementing the nation-state as it reaches its limits amid globalization: That is what Europe must offer.

- Martin Schulz

topic: Europe, Limits, Globalization

Globalization exists but we shouldn't conflate globalization with trade agreements. Trade agreements is how we can shape globalization.

- Michael Froman

topic: Agreement, Shapes, Globalization, Trade Agreements

Globalization is simply opening the free marketplace to encompass the entire world.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: World, Globalization, Free Market

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

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Globalization

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

topic: Trying, Painting, Globalization

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.

- Thomas P.M. Barnett

topic: Movement, Terrorism, Globalization

Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

- Marine Le Pen

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: Globalization, Catastrophe

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

- Franklin Foer

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Thinking, Islam, Globalization

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.

- Franklin Foer

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Names, Sound, Globalization

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.

- John L. Casti

source: "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

topic: Years, Globalization, Ends, Deflation

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

- Christine Lagarde

source: "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

topic: Benefits, Globalization, Direct

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation.

- Christine Lagarde

source: "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

topic: Innovation, Tablets, Globalization, Cellphone

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

- Christine Lagarde

source: "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

topic: Globalization, Consumption

We have been subject to globalization and financialization and austerity and workers have been thrown under the bus while the one percent is rolling in dough.

- Jill Stein

source: Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

topic: Rolling, Austerity, Globalization, Thrown Under The Bus

In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.

- Peter Thiel

source: Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

topic: Technology, World, Globalization, New Technology, Scarce Resources

Desperation is the result of globalization.

- Tariq Ali

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

topic: Desperation, Globalization, Results

If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

- Pope Francis

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Together, Individual, Globalization

The themes that the anti-globalization protesters bring to the discussion are of extraordinary importance. However, the theses that they often bring to it, sometimes in the form of slogans, are often oversimple.

- Amartya Sen

source: Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

topic: Sometimes, Globalization, Form

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands.

- John L. Casti

source: "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

topic: Communication, Financial, Globalization, Financial Markets

I think globalization has been really good for America.

- David Brooks

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Thinking, America, Globalization

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

- Tony Blair

source: Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

topic: World, Paradox, Globalization, Massive

The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient, and so globalization implies a transfer of power to the private sector.

- Mary Robinson

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Government, Globalization, Used

corporate globalization is being relentlessly and arbitrarily imposed on an essentially feudal society, tearing through its complex, tiered social fabric, ripping it apart culturally and economically.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Arundhati Roy (2016). “The End of Imagination”, p.77, Haymarket Books

topic: Fabric, Globalization, Social

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

- Vandana Shiva

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Thinking, Glamour, Globalization, Disenchanted

Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can.

- Jose Saramago

source: Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

topic: Rich, Poor, Globalization

There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on.

- Barack Obama

source: Source: time.com

topic: Focus, Protection, Globalization, Mobile

Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.

- Helen Keller

topic: Failing, Globalization, Chiefs

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

topic: Example, Excess, Globalization, Young Ladies

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

source: Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. November 12, 2003.

topic: Support, Faces, Globalization

The Internet is the most effective instrument we have for globalization.

- Milton Friedman

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Internet, Globalization, Instruments

We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.

- Milton Friedman

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Globalization, Century, Trade

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

- Jack Welch

topic: Globalization, Barriers, Objectives