Quotes About Globalization

#1. 'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Pico Iyer

#2. What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Bernard Arnault

#3. I like globalization; I want to say it works, but it is hard to say that when six hundred million people are slipping backwards.

Paul Wolfowitz

#4. Corporations now govern society, perhaps more than governments themselves do; yet ironically, it is their very power, much of which they have gained through economic globalization, that makes them vulnerable.

Joel Bakan

#5. 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.

Anita Roddick

#6. I would say that in 2000, we understand as much about how today's system of globalization is going to work as we understood about how the Cold War system was going to work in 1946.

Thomas Friedman

#7. I just started taking Mandarin classes. I love the idea of globalization: of being able to work in different countries.

Sandrine Holt

#8. We cannot leap into world government through one quick step ... The precondition for eventual and genuine globalization is progressive regionalization because by that we move toward larger, more stable, more cooperative units.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#9. 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.

John B. Larson

#10. 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.

Benjamin Moser

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

Franklin Foer

#12. 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.

John Olver

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

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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

Franklin Foer

#15. Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?

Mikhail Gorbachev

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

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

#17. Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It's not that we don't need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

Amartya Sen

#18. There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

David Korten

#19. Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open ourselves to them. And that's not comfortable for the average person.

Herbie Hancock

#20. Globalization by the way of McDonald's and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.

Raquel Cepeda

#21. 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

#22. Human rights are particularly cherished by the West, which has never acknowledged economic rights. Human rights mean freedom from politcal oppression, tyranny and abuse, while economic oppression, tyranny and abuse are built into the very structures of globalization.

Jeremy Seabrook

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

P. J. O'Rourke

#24. During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

Noah Feldman

#25. I mean, you hear the word 'globalization' over and over and over again. Globalization, globalization, globalization. Rarely has a word gone so directly from obscurity to meaninglessness without any intervening period of coherence.

Robert Reich

#26. Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

Evgeny Morozov

#27. Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks ... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.

Jared Diamond

#28. We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

Jacqueline Winspear

#29. 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

#30. American firms are beginning to reproduce nonsustainable systems, to force the elite of India to become energy consumers of the kind that the U.S. has become. That's what globalization is about: Find markets where you can.

Vandana Shiva

#31. In the struggle for the rights of the poor in Central America and other places where globalization is bringing its negative effects, there is no organization more effective than the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights.

Thomas Gumbleton

#32. Recent rampage is a function of the exponential growth of populations and economies. It has to do with globalization and the steady increase in computational power.

Stephanie Mills

#33. We look at globalization and terrorism as phenomena that are defined in limited time and scope, we tend to arrive at conclusions that are as ephemeral as the newspapers.

Anonymous

#34. If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization.

Peter Mandelson

#35. 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.

Franklin Foer

#36. The deeper and subtler effects of the economic dimension of globalization intensify the politics of insecurity.

Andrew Rojecki

#37. It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

Norman Spinrad

#38. Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.

Charles Fishman

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

John Agyekum Kufuor

#40. 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

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

Bill Ayers

#42. We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

Mark Kingwell

#43. Westernization, coupled with globalization, has created an affluent and leisured elite that now gravitates to universities, the media, bureaucracies, and world organizations, all places where wealth is not created, but analyzed, critiqued, and lavishly spent.

Victor Davis Hanson

#44. The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes brought on by globalization and even the price of oil have thrown the nation's economic health into question.

Roger Mahony

#45. Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

Fatos Nano

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

Lakhdar Brahimi

#47. Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Robert Reich

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

Bill Gates

#49. Globalization has not only lost its promise but is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, as the banner of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, 'Another world is possible!'

Walden Bello

#50. The globalization and competitiveness of the world economy will ultimately result in the absolute division of human beings into two classes, and the more powerful of these classes will enslave the other until the human condition either evolves or comes to an end.

Aaron B. Powell

#51. Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

George Soros

#52. Globalization is stirring widespread economic anxiety, and middle class incomes have stagnated while a class of super-rich has emerged.

Nina Easton

#53. I think there is an enormous sea change happening in the global workforce. It has a lot to do with globalization. I think that people used to have a hope for a career or meaningful employment, and its been reduced to internships, part-time work or just grossly underpaid work.

Dan Gilroy

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

Nestor Kirchner

#55. Globalization has created this interlocking fragility. At no time in the history of the universe has the cancellation of a Christmas order in New York meant layoffs in China.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#56. 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

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

George W. Bush

#58. But an oft-heard complaint, as companies spread their tentacles around the world and compete on a global playing field, is that globalization is merely a new form of imperialism.

Tom Standage

#59. Gandhi's idea of swadeshi-that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom-is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

Vandana Shiva

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

Peter Thiel

#61. In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

Pankaj Mishra

#62. We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.

Bruce Tulgan

#63. 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

#64. Globalization is the next big artworld idea

Noel Carroll

#65. 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.

Robert Reich

#66. We cannot wait for governments to do it all. Globalization operates on Internet time. Governments tend to be slow moving by nature, because they have to build political support for every step.

Kofi Annan

#67. The merger of globalization and the I.T. revolution means new products are being phased in and out so fast that companies cannot afford to wait until the end of the year to figure out whether a team leader is doing a good job.

Thomas Friedman

#68. 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

#69. There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

Rashida Jones

#70. 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

#71. Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.

Anatoly Chubais

#72. Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront.

Pope Francis

#73. 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.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#74. Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

Graham Owen

#75. When Mrs. Clinton ran for office, she promised economic growth across New York state, to bring in more than 200,000 jobs, ... She has not. We have lost jobs to outsourcing and globalization and to sending our jobs and industries to foreign countries.

David Brenner

#76. The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.

William Greider

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

Lawrence Summers

#78. Globalization replaced technology as the hope for the future. Since the '90s migration "from bricks to clicks" didn't work as hoped, investors went back to bricks (housing) and BRICs (globalization). The result was another bubble, this time in real estate.

Peter Thiel

#79. The greatest weapon of mass destruction is corporate economic globalization.

Kenny Ausubel

#80. I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

Os Guinness

#81. Today's economic landscape is being shaped by two powerful forces - technology and globalization.

Philip Kotler

#82. I recognize that globalization has helped many people rise out of poverty, but it has also damned many others to starve to death. It is true that global wealth is growing in absolute terms, but inequalities have also grown and new poverty arisen.

Pope Francis

#83. Ironically, xenophobic nationalists are utilizing the benefits of globalization.

Maajid Nawaz

#84. The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Fredric Jameson

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

Omar Bongo

#86. The trends that are shaping the twenty-first-century world embody both promise and peril. Globalization, for example, has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty while contributing to social fragmentation and a massive increase in inequality, not to mention serious environmental damage.

Klaus Schwab

#87. 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.

Flemming Rose

#88. Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

Michael Spence

#89. As economic globalization gathers momentum, China and the United States have become highly interdependent economically. Such economic relations would not enjoy sustained, rapid growth if they were not based on mutual benefit or if they failed to deliver great benefits to the United States.

Xi Jinping

#90. No economy, no company, in fact no individual can develop its full potential today without embracing two fundamental trends - globalization and digitalization. They will dominate for quite some time to come.

Zhang Xin

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

John Shelton Reed

#92. Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

Arthur Levitt

#93. 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.

Franklin Foer

#94. Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

Loretta Napoleoni

#95. Under the process of ongoing globalization, advantages are, in the main, created for a minority of countries and development centres as well as powerful transnational companies.

Tran Duc Luong

#96. But in general, as countries get wealthier, there's going to be more savings, which means you're going to have intermediation. So part of it is just the huge growth in wealth, and part of it was globalization - these companies, these clients getting much bigger and much more global.

Jamie Dimon

#97. I know it is the itch between the legs which causes everything-Wars, Religions, Marriages, Elections, Families, Globalization, Trade, Literature, Science, and for me Philosophy.

Aporva Kala

#98. It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

Kofi Annan

#99. Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

Arundhati Roy

#100. 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