Globalization Quotes

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

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.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

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.

The globalization of the capital market is actually part of economic globalization. This will create a change in the entire world economy, not just restricted to some fields in some countries.

The regime of globalization promotes an unfettered marketplace as the dynamic instrument organizing international relations.

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

Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values and practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment.

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

For globalization to work for America, it must work for working people. We should measure the success of our economy by the breadth of our middle class, and the scope of opportunity offered to the poorest child to climb into that middle class.

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.

Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.

This is a basic requirement the meaning of globalization is that we should admit that the economy of each country is dependent on the economy of all the others.

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.

For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?

A lot of people, including business leaders, think the future belongs to China. Globalization is not a zero-sum game, but we need to hone our skills to stay in play.