Globalisation Quotes

• Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

  Anna Lindh

  Challenges, Borders, World

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• Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

  William J. Clinton

  Wind, Water, Economic

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001".

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• Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Creativity, Creative, Our Society

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• Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Latin, Russia

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• Globalisation, which benefits only multi-national companies and takes away all sense of local or national pride and identity, is the biggest threat facing all the member states of the EU.

  Steve Blake

  Pride, Identity, Benefits

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• One of the fundamental questions of today's world is undoubtedly the question of equitable globalisation.

  Janez Drnovsek

  Fundamentals, World, Today

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• Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.

  Anna Lindh

  Responsibility, Mdgs, Government

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• I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.

  David Attenborough

  Economic, Advantage, Bases

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• There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade.

  Barack Obama

  People, Anxiety, Leaving

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nice, Memorable, Patriotic

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• We belong to a tradition where we treat the entire universe as our family. For me, globalisation is the manifestation of nationalisation. There is no contradiction between the two.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Two, India

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• I think that these flows of refugee are the inevitable counterparts to the flow of capital and goods. In other words, they too are by-products of globalisation.

  Kofi Annan

  Thinking, Flow, Inevitable

  Source: www.accaglobal.com

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• The globalisation of information makes people aware of what they have - and have not. Problems and oppression are impossible to hide, and the new and powerful tools of information provide us with more opportunities than ever to react and act.

  Anna Lindh

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• In the age of globalization pooled sovereignty means more power, not less.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Mean, Age, Sovereignty

  Jose Manuel Barroso's State of the European Union Speech, www.ibtimes.com. September 12, 2012.

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• We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but with those groups who are now connecting with the forces of transformation. It is not terror and violence, but trust and solidarity which will lead the new world. This is not just a wishful dream, but the objective reality of the coming epoch.

  Dieter Duhm

  Dream, Lying, Reality

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• We need a greening of globalisation.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Needs, Greening

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• The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

  Noam Chomsky

  Rights, Wealth, Used

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• One of the striking features of the form of globalisation that has now been established is that it is based on the premise that goods and even capital should be free to roam but labour must remain imprisoned within the nation state.

  Roberto Unger

  States, Form, Should

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• At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the west towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

  Martin Jacques

  Heart, Other Cultures, Colonialism

  "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

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• Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Born, Pundits, Stamps

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• I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Challenges, Ongoing

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It remains the task of governments to implement the fundamental human rights standards which should influence all aspects of globalisation, including even trade talks, and to be answerable for this in a democratic way. The structure is international, but the accountability is national and I would like to see that accountability being more penetrating at regional and local level, especially in federal systems.

  Mary Robinson

  Rights, Government, Accountability

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

  Amartya Sen

  May, Opponents, Folly

  "Freedom's market" by Amartya Sen, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2000.

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• I am actually quite encouraged and I think, actually, the UK is coping with globalisation a lot better than most other European countries. And that is reflected in the fact that (whilst of course there are people who are still unemployed) our unemployment rate is low and (whilst of course we need to export more) we are attracting a huge amount of inward investment into Britain.

  George Osborne

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.economist.com

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• It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Democracy, Obvious

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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