Quotes About The Global Village

#1. Marshall McLuhan was right when he said that television has made a global village of the world - but he didn't know the global village would be Beirut. - Author: Joseph Campbell

#2. South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. - Author: Tom Peters

#3. Simplicity enables us to live lives of integrity in the face of the terrible realities of our global village. - Author: Richard J. Foster

#4. Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands. - Author: Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. When you truly accept that those children in some far off place in the global village have the same value as you in God's eyes or even in just your eyes, then your life is forever changed; you see something that you can't un-see. - Author: Bono

#6. We live now in a global village and we are in one single family. It's our responsibility to bring friendship and love from all different places around the world and to live together in peace. - Author: Jackie Chan

#7. When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage. - Author: Amar'e Stoudemire

#8. The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk. - Author: Yoko Ono

#9. We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said. - Author: Yann Martel

#10. The global village is a place of very arduous interfaces and very abrasive situations. - Author: Marshall McLuhan

#11. My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. - Author: Denis Leary

#12. The whole world is global. With the Internet, it's like we're all living in a small village. We're starting more and more to realize there is no difference, we can work together, we can put aside our differences and work on our similarities and be successful in that way. - Author: Shohreh Aghdashloo

#13. You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history! - Author: Christa McAuliffe

#14. Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global. - Author: T.F. Hodge

#15. Twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites. - Author: Christopher Brookmyre

#16. We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world. - Author: Yuan T. Lee

#17. In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations. - Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

#18. Our work seeks to focus attention on the necessity of developing security for the global village, meeting its need for clean air, water, food and a healthy habitat, as well as fostering clarity of vision on cooperation and development. - Author: Rosalie Bertell

#19. The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village. - Author: Hendrik Tennekes

#20. When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority. - Author: Michael Ignatieff

#21. Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today. - Author: Narendra Modi

#22. We have a duty to get to know one another, and to cultivate a concern and responsibility for all our neighbors in the global village. - Author: Karen Armstrong

#23. If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons. - Author: Arundhati Roy

#24. I wanted to do something new. The world is becoming a global village and we have to understand these different cultures. There is a Danish culture, an Israeli culture and so on. So if you want to go to Denmark, then read the book. - Author: Enock Maregesi

#25. For the world order to be one of peace and justice, for the global village to be a theater of right livelihood, it is imperative that a new and proactive spiritual vision commensurate to the challenges of the emerging world order be enunciated without delay. - Author: Agnivesh

#26. I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. - Author: Christa McAuliffe

#27. From deep within, our spirits are calling for a new and greater global wholeness, global healing, and global opportunity
the voice is ours, the time is now, and the resources are what we have. - Author: Laura Teresa Marquez

#28. In this era of the global village, the tide of democracy is running. And it will not cease, not in China, not in South Africa, not in any corner of this earth, where the simple idea of democracy and freedom has taken root. - Author: Paul Tsongas

#29. The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. - Author: Bill Gates

#30. The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. - Author: Marshall McLuhan

#31. Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family. - Author: Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#32. The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement. - Author: Derek Ridgers

#33. R0 explains and, to some limited degree, it predicts. It defines the boundary between a small cluster of weird infections in a tropical village somewhere, flaring up, burning out, and a global pandemic. It came from George MacDonald. - Author: David Quammen

#34. After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing. - Author: Andrei Codrescu

#35. In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. - Author: Aberjhani