Linda Colley Quotes

Globilization is here to stay.

Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information across the globe. But globalisation is also a view of the world - it is an opinion about man and why men are on the world.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

Globalization is the process by which markets integrate worldwide.

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing new about it.

Globalization

We cannot turn back the tides of globalization any more than King Knute [995-1035] could turn back the tides.

Globalization is the central reality of our time.

Globalization is the speed of light.

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

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

We're not isolated from the world. The world knocks on our door.

That's just globalization. It's got good sides as well. But scenes aren't allowed to develop on their own anymore. Everyone knows about everything.

Everything in the Middle East is connected to everything else

Globalization punctures borders.

The EU represents a highly developed system for mutual interference in each other’s domestic affairs right down to beer and sausages.

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don't like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.