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.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.

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

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.

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.

Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it. Fear it.

Simplicity gives you the power of freedom.Kindness gives you the power of boldness.Humility gives you the power of acceptance.

We cannot be a source for strength unless we nurture our own strength.

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

Some people are born on third base.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

I love to clean. I love to cook.

We live in a society which salves its conscience more by helping the interestingly unfortunate than the dull deserving.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

By the blessings of heaven I mean to live and die, please God, in the faith of my mother.