Anna Lindh Quotes

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

No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.

Sovereignty will fall victim to the flow of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, dollars, drugs, viruses, and e-mails… Sovereign states will increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another but to forces of globalization beyond their control.

It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

What is the world coming to?

Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

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

The world has grown frightening small in compass.

One thing you can say in favor of the globalization system is that it doesn’t discriminate—it leaves both the weak and the powerful feeling a loss of control and under the thumb of elected and at times uncontrollable forces.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

Much of the history of the 21st century, for good or ill, will be written in Asia.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

The U.S.-China relationship is one of the most important bilateral relationships in the world.

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

Anyone who tries to separate or divorce domestic politics from international politics does not get it, and that might be dangerous for the future of Western Muslims.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history.