“As I have said many times before, the speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light. And it is nothing else!” WorldDoeSaidLightSpeedGlobalizationSpeed Of Light Author:Paul Virilio
“Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.” LightShapesSpeedGlobalizationSpeed Of Light Author:Paul Virilio
“There are systemic, painful problems of globalization and de-industrialization that cannot be solved with a phone call or a tweet or an angry speech or trying to isolate the press and the first amendment. Sooner or later, the Donald Trump show, which is a projection of strength and authority, will have to deliver to his voters. And if he doesn't, in very real terms, if he can't supersede a situation where a president cut the unemployment rate in half, if he can't do better, if he can't open factories and all the rest that he's promised, then I think he's in trouble.” IfsThinkingTryingFirstsRealShowsProblemPresidentTermHalfSituationCuttingTroubleTrumpSpeechAuthorityAngryPressesRatePhonesPainfulVotersFactoriesAmendmentsSooner Or LaterUnemploymentGlobalizationProjectionFirst AmendmentTweetPhone CallsIndustrializationUnemployment Rate Author:David Remnick
“NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.” RealityTodayJobsLevelsTechnologyEconomySkillsCreatingLowsProductivityOur FutureCompetingGlobalizationNew TechnologyLow LevelNafta Author:John F. Kerry
“What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.” KindDifferentRealUseAmericaLanguageVisionRightsFeminismMovementReturnTrumpImmigrationCivil RightsAppealsPensImaginaryTechnologicalGlobalizationMarineCivil Rights MovementNostalgicTechnological Change Author:Anne Applebaum
“Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?” PeopleKnowsWantFeelsLongDoeAgeMovingYoungProcessPoliticianDemocraticMoving ForwardDigitalFrustratedOld PeopleGlobalizationDigital AgeDrainedDemocratic Process Author:Anne Applebaum
“Without going too deep, without globalization I am not sure everyone would be able to have a supercomputer in their pocket at the low cost.” Would BeAbleCostLowsNot SurePocketsGlobalizationToo DeepSupercomputers Author:Ken Moelis
“There are some very difficult things to understand that globalization is providing, that people really think are just here but really are a function of some of that. There are some very difficult arguments.” PeopleThinkingDifficultArgumentFunctionProvidingGlobalizationDifficult Things Author:Ken Moelis
“Ethical globalization is possible if only we can hold governments and business accountable for respecting human rights, not just in the traditional political and legal realms, but in everything - health, education and the other social determinants of health - rights to food, safe water, sanitation and so on.” IfsHumansGovernmentPoliticalSocialWaterRightsSafeHuman RightsTraditionalRealmsEthicalGlobalizationSanitationHealth EducationGovernment And Business Author:Mary Robinson
“The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient, and so globalization implies a transfer of power to the private sector.” GovernmentUsedUsed To BeEfficientGlobalizationTransfersPrivate Sector Author:Mary Robinson
“Indian intellectuals today feel radical when they condemn fundamentalism, but not many people are talking about the links between privatization, globalization, and fundamentalism.” PeopleFeelsTodayTalkingRadicalIndianLinksFundamentalismGlobalizationPrivatization Author:Arundhati Roy
“The religious rightwingism is directly linked to globalization and to privatization. When India is talking about selling its entire power sector to foreign multinationals, when the political climate gets too hot and uncomfortable, the government will immediately start saying, should we build a Hindu temple on the site of the Babri mosque? Everyone will go baying off in that direction. It's a game.” ShouldGovernmentPoliticalGamesReligiousTalkingIndiaHotClimateSellingUncomfortableTemplesSiteLinkedGlobalizationMosquesMultinationalsPrivatization Author:Arundhati Roy
“People are really excited by Obama abroad because he seems to be the first American presidential candidate who has ambition to go out of the country. In a sense, with the power of globalization, you are kind of electing the leader of the Western world to an extent.” PeopleWorldFirstsKindCountrySeemsLeaderAmbitionWesternExcitedPresidentialCandidatesGlobalizationWestern WorldPresidential CandidateAmerican President Author:Irvine Welsh
“The reason that we are becoming less equal is because of the greater requirements, secure requirements, for a good job. This goes back to the '80s basically, this started changing as globalization and the IT revolution merged, and each started to drive the other.” ReasonJobsGreaterRevolutionBecomingEqualSecureRequirements80sGlobalizationGood Job Author:Thomas Friedman
“I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. I think it's that. That is the real challenge that we face today. Unlike the Soviet Union, it has no face, it has no missiles, but it is something that challenges every job, every city and every community.” ThinkingShouldRealTodayJobsFacesCommunityChallengesCitiesRevolutionShould HaveUnionsAlsSovietReplacedSoviet UnionGlobalizationMissilesMergers Author:Thomas Friedman
“Globalization has become an ideology with no constraints. And now, nations are forcing themselves back into the debate. Nations with borders we control, with people that we listen to, with real economies, not Wall Street economies, but rather factories and farmers. And this goes against this unregulated globalization, wild, savage globalization.” PeopleRealNationsEconomyStreetsWallDebateIdeologyBordersFarmersFactoriesSavagesGlobalizationConstraints Author:Marine Le Pen
“Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.” CatastropheGlobalization Author:Marine Le Pen
“I think of what's happening in Detroit as part of something that's much bigger. Most people think of the decline of the city as having to do with African-Americans and being in debt, and all the issues like crime and bad housing. But what happened is that when globalization took place, following World War II, Detroit's role as the center and the symbol of industrialization was destroyed. It wasn't because we had black citizens mainly or a black mayor; it was because the world was changing.” PeopleThinkingWorldWarBlackCitiesRolesIssuesHappenedCrimeCitizensHappeningsBiggerFollowingDebtDestroyedSymbolsAfrican AmericanWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiDeclineWorld War IGlobalizationHousingMayorsDetroitIndustrialization Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The standardization and specialization of industrialization was being undermined by globalization. When people in Bangladesh could produce things much more cheaply than anybody could produce them in Detroit, we no longer were the world capital of industrialization.” PeopleWorldProduceGlobalizationDetroitBangladeshSpecializationIndustrializationStandardization Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“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.” ThinkingStatesLightNationsPowerfulRevolutionPowerlessGlobalizationFrench Revolution Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.” PeopleIfsWorldKindIdeasStatesEnoughHelpingGovernmentStrongNationsRealizingCommunityPressureWestProtestVery StrongGlobalizationWeakeningOrganizer Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of their traditionally powerful societies.” StillsAmericaPowerfulDespiteAssumptionBarriersBreaking DownGlobalizationBreaking Down Barriers Author:Pankaj Mishra
“For me, it was always clear that Toni Erdmann is more a film about what globalization, capitalism, does with private relationships much more than making a "political" film. It's more interesting to raise questions, because I don't feel in a position to "make a statement" with the film. Toni Erdmann comes from a completely different generation then his daughter, it's the post-war generation, they were very politically engaged. They raised their children with a lot of human worldviews, sent them out in the world believing in a world without borders.” WorldBelieveChildrenDifferentFilmPoliticalInterestingDaughterCapitalismGlobalizationWorldview Author:Maren Ade
“Today what we see is tribes moving into the 21st century and facing real 21st century problems of globalization, of multi-national, national resource development, of jobs, tribes have elected leaderships. They're elected to do a lot of things.” RealProblemTodayMoving21st CenturyGlobalization Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.
“I don't even know what being left wing means anymore. I feel that the left/right spectrum has been so fundamentally scrambled primarily by the politics around globalization - and you saw it in Brexit, you saw it in the French election, you see it in our election, it's happening everywhere.” MeanElectionGlobalizationLeft Wing Author:Lydia Polgreen
“You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money.” MomentsDrivenArguingChineseGlobalization Author:Ruth Wilson
“I feel that we're dividing along class lines for the first time in our history. Now one thing that has happened in this reaction to globalization is that the elites are not respectful of the values of those who are ordinary citizens, so we seem to be dividing ourselves into ever-smaller identity groups, each with its own narrative, each with its own grievance, and that's a problem.” ProblemValuesIdentityFirst TimeGlobalizationRespectfulGrievance Author:Condoleezza Rice
“Globalization in part means that a lot of people are walking into the room and in some cases becoming influential or even dominant voices in the conversation. Sometimes they are like party-crashers coming in and pushing people around, scooping up the valuables and eating up the food in the frig - bribing political leaders, undermining traditional economies and the ways of life that are interwoven with them, replacing them with new economic models that effectively exploit developing countries for their labor and resources.” PeopleMeanCountrySometimesPoliticalLeaderEconomyEconomicWalkingEatingLaborGlobalizationInfluential Author:David Wong
“The demonization of Islam and immigrants shows that perception of difference remains one of our biggest problems, and maybe always will be for a species that began in small groups competing with other groups for resources. These apparently competing forces for sameness and difference sometimes even seem to be mutually reinforcing. The homogenizing force of globalization tends to make many people feel they are on the losing side, economically and culturally, and it is they who are most easily turned against those "others" who are demonized by demagogues.” PeopleSometimesProblemPerceptionLosingIslamCompetingGlobalizationSameness Author:David Wong
“The silver lining of Brexit and Trump is that it has undermined the perception that globalization is an unstoppable force, whether or not we think it is a good thing or a bad thing. There have always been losers and as well as winners in this process, and cultural minorities have been among the most vulnerable losers. Now that sizable numbers of people in the most advanced economies have made their grievances felt in a fashion that is hard to ignore.” PeopleThinkingEconomyFashionPerceptionGood ThingsVulnerableWinnerSilverLoserGlobalizationGrievanceUnstoppable Author:David Wong
“It must be acknowledged that an increasing proportion of the world's population is living in cities, in almost completely human-made environments. But we should also acknowledge that there are still a considerable number of people who wish to live in harmony with nature, and that globalization has made their ways of life increasing difficult to sustain.” PeopleWishDifficultEnvironmentHarmonyAcknowledgeGlobalization Author:David Wong
“People in the rich countries who have done very well, who are at the top of the income pyramid, try to steamroll over the opposition of the middle without changing anything in social programs, or any redistribution. And they take their votes for a given. They have rich people that bankroll them. And the globalization would continue, but it would continue with permanent dissatisfaction among large segments of the people.” PeopleTryingCountryDoneRichProgramVoteGlobalizationRich PeopleDissatisfaction Author:Branko Milanovic
“While you can say that the problem of the middle class in the rich countries is too much globalization, the problem of the people who are very poor is really that they are not included in globalization. For them, the success of their own countries at becoming part of this international division of labor would be good news.” PeopleCountryProblemPoorRichLaborBe GoodMiddle ClassGlobalization Author:Branko Milanovic
“Donald Trump understands sense of belonging. And a lot of people think globalization, any time you make any particularity, you're sort of offending some other group. And a lot of people in this country think they belong to America anymore, and he at least appeals to some sense of belonging. I like the idea that we belong to Western traditions, so I'm glad he appeals to that sort of thing.” PeopleThinkingCountryTraditionWesternGladBelongingGlobalization Author:David Brooks
“I think the twenty-first century happened, basically. That this century started on 9/11. And basically, it's been a century of counter reaction to globalization and the meritocracy. And a good century for 72 nations have gotten more authoritarian. We've had Brexit. We have Le Pen rising in France. We've just got a lot of these types all around the world. And the people who are suffering from globalization and the meritocracy are saying, "No more. You know, we get a voice too."” PeopleThinkingWorldSufferingPensGlobalizationMeritocracy Author:David Brooks
“What makes globalization even possible in the first place? One answer would be that it requires the regularization of some kind of media and communication infrastructure. When you have that, you might get globalized economic trade within some political or imperial framework, but it is likely you'll get transnational cultural flows as well. Globalizing trade can lead to a cosmopolitan culture, but also to all sorts of nationalistic or racist or patriarchal reactions to those as breaches of imaginary communities.” KindPoliticalCultureCommunityEconomicCommunicationTradeRacistImaginaryGlobalization Author:McKenzie Wark
“The failure of unions to support efforts to increase employee involvement and ownership coincided with their unwillingness to speak out on the broader issues of business effectiveness and performance. When foreign competitors threatened the survival of American manufacturers, unions chose to voice traditional employee demands for higher wages, better benefits, and more security. What they failed to provide were effective responses to the challenge of globalization.” SpeakChallengesEffortSupportSecuritySurvivalResponseEmployeeOwnershipGlobalizationInvolvement Author:James O'Toole
“I'm trying to make a primitive painting. I'm trying to summon the archaic. I want to enter into a primitive situation. This is my protest against the sensory deprivation that we experience, which is due to this tendency towards globalization, towards homogenization, towards the generic - a technological standard rather than an aesthetic standard. I'm mining history, trying to regenerate a pictorial situation that is more humanistic. It's not about commodification, it's not about fitting into some sort of corporate structure. It's opposed to that direction.” TryingSituationPaintingProtestAestheticPrimitiveTechnologicalGlobalizationFittingMiningHumanistic Author:Philip Taaffe
“Especially now, the immigrant problem is very dramatic around the world. Because we don't know what to do with them. They're in economic crisis, and there are more and more. There will be more and more. We speak about globalization of economy, but it's also globalization for immigration. Millions of people, they're willing to have a better life. A better life, they cannot have it where they live, so they move.” PeopleWorldProblemMovingSpeakEconomyEconomicCrisisImmigrationDramaticGlobalizationBetter Life Author:Costa-Gavras
“I'm trying to see if I can speak about our society today, but I cannot speak about the theme, because it's a bit difficult. I'm just starting to work on that. Because we live in a kind of world which has drastically changed in the last years. We speak about globalization, and how it's become the reason for everything. It has a kind of deep meaning. To be everywhere and to be nowhere at the same time. You think to globalize, you think, the Earth, it's your country. No, it's not your country. It's not easy to catch it in a cinema. It's too huge.” ThinkingWorldTryingKindCountryReasonTodayEarthSpeakEasyDifficultChangedGlobalization Author:Costa-Gavras
“We have to think about what the future is going to look like for people. People are afraid of robotization; they're afraid of globalization; they're afraid of all these things. And Trump's solution to that is: shut the borders; America first; everything's got to be made here, which is of course, not realistic - in his own companies everything's not made here at all - but I think we have to engage in issues that do cross these demographic boundaries.” PeopleThinkingSolutionsBoundariesRealisticGlobalization Author:Michael Kazin
“I don't live in Ireland, I live in London with my girlfriend; and it's because of the globalization of our planet, it's not necessary to live in Los Angeles to be a successful and any country is just an airplane ride away. If there's a director who wants to meet me or if there's something I have to do, I can just hop on an airplane - the world's small now.” CountrySuccessfulGirlfriendLos AngelesAirplaneIrelandGlobalizationMy Girlfriend Author:Jonathan Rhys Meyers
“The term "globalization," like most terms of public discourse, has two meanings: its literal meaning, and a technical sense used for doctrinal purposes. In its literal sense, "globalization" means international integration. Its strongest proponents since its origins have been the workers movements and the left , which is why unions are called "internationals", and the strongest proponents today are those who meet annually in the World Social Forum and its many regional offshoots.” WorldMeanTodayPurposeTermIntegrationGlobalization Author:Noam Chomsky
“Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable growth of popular movements and authentic participation in the political systems. How successful this will be is more a matter for action than for speculation.” ActionPoliticalGrowthPathSuccessfulRemarkableLatinExploringParticipationGlobalizationSpeculationLatin America Author:Noam Chomsky
“For Russians in the '90s, there was that sense of not knowing what the future held at all. And coming off a long period of when people actually were robbed of the ability to plan their future - that's very much a part of totalitarian control - that exacerbated it. In this country, we are not coming off a long period like that. But I think that for a lot of Americans, as a result of globalization, as a result of the housing crisis, the future is just too uncertain. And their place in the world is too uncertain.” PeopleThinkingWorldLongCountryAbilityCrisisGlobalization Author:Masha Gessen
“Angela Merkel embodies Germany's 20th century fate. It is not up to me to pass judgment on her place in history, but I believe that she is the chancellor of Germany's reconciliation with Europe. She stands for a Germany for whom globalization has been a success and which accepts its role in foreign and defense policy. I thought the way she dealt with the refugees was courageous. I think she is the chancellor of reconciliation.” ThinkingBelieveI BelieveAcceptingFatePolicyJudgmentCourageous20th CenturyRefugeeGlobalizationReconciliation Author:Emmanuel Macron
“The solution for rising up kids in the income distributionlies is in creating better childhood environments for kids growing up, especially in low income families. And so what means such things like schools, the quality of neighborhoods. If you think about what's gone on in Baltimore, it's a place of tremendous concentrated poverty. People aren't really seeing a path forward and I think revitalizing places like that can have a huge impact, even in the face of globalization and changes in technology.” PeopleThinkingMeanKidsSchoolQualityPovertyTechnologyGrowing UpPathEnvironmentChildhoodSolutionsNeighborhoodGlobalization Author:Raj Chetty
“Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. And people discuss it in a way that makes it seem so impersonal. But globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.” PeopleSoccerConcreteGlobalization Author:Franklin Foer
“Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretically a universalist idea, its spread has been facilitated by modern technologies, and it's an identity that people can slip into and out of fairly easily. 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.” PeopleThinkingTechnologyModernIdentityIslamSpreadPhenomenonGlobalizationModern Technology Author:Franklin Foer
“As for the Jewish-American question, what's funny is that I grew up in India, and the Jewish-American comparison is better for second-generation Asians. I'm sure there's something about globalization that has globalized our neuroses, so that I, growing up in India, somehow turned out very similar to you. It's a weird thing, when you think about it, but everyone now is exposed to a mainstream white American world, wherever you are. And so there's this need to belong or measure yourself up to that white world, which leads to all sorts of straining.” ThinkingWorldGrowing UpComparisonGlobalization Author:Karan Mahajan