Globalization Quotes

That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.

Instead of having a set of policies that are equipping people for the globalization of the economy, we have policies that are accelerating the most destructive trends of the global economy.

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.

Improved productivity is another direct benefit of globalization.

We can't speak day after day about globalization without at the same time having in mind that...we need multilateral solutions.

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups.

I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.

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.

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

Irrespective of todays judgment and the price we had to pay in this generation, we were able to close an epoch of divisions, different blocs and borders, opening the way for an era of globalization.

Malcolm X represents the cutting edge of a kind of critique of globalization in the 21st century. In fact, Malcolm, if anything, was far ahead of the curve in so many ways.

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

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

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

My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Economic globalization creates wealth, but only for the elite who benefit from the surge of consolidations, mergers, global scale technology, and financial activity.

I am an anarchist, and according to anarchist principles nation states become obstacles to a true humanistic globalization.

The triumph of economic globalization has inspired a wave of techno-savvy investigative activists who are as globally minded as the corporations they track.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Talking about 'stopping globalization' is unrealistic - and probably not what anti-globalization protesters actually want.

Indeed, this is an important characteristic of the globalization debate: the tendency toward glorifying all things indigenous even when they deserve to be left in the past.

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

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

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

the leaders of globalization ... have tied themselves to a single measurement by which they judge success and failure ... They only measure money and the bottom line.

The freedom that comes with globalization is freedom for the rich and powerful nations to further exploit and further marginalize those at the bottom of the social ladder.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.

Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

I think it would be unfortunate if people in Saudi Arabia or some parts of the world influenced what we speak about in Denmark. [But] it's a fact of globalization, and we must consider it.

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

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

Globalization looked like it was going to answer all the economic questions of class. Turned out not to be the case.

Globalization has altered the dynamics in the White House, as well as between the White House and the Treasury.

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

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

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.

Globalization has taken a hit in that there is some sand in the gears because most of us have supply chains that are all over the world that we've had to lengthen.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

As all Americans head forward into the new reality globalization has created, they want leaders who will level with them and help level the playing field.

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.

In this age of globalization, instant real time media and television, everyone all over the world realizes that high energy usage equates with a high standard of living and wealth.

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