Hannah Arendt Quotes

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

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.

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

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality.

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, not as ostriches

The world is such a small place.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.