John Berger Quotes

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

Globalisation is happening so fast it's confusing for people, and tolerance is threatened.

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.

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.

Things are so much global and Americanised.

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

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.

… 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.

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.

Globalisation is not remotely new; it has been occurring, at differing rates and with differing degrees of scale, for centuries.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

I think that the world is going to remain a very interconnected place. I don't think there's any getting away from that. The Internet has brought us closer together. I think cross-border trade is going to continue to grow substantially. I think there may be certain trade agreements that can be renegotiated, one way or another.

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

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.

Progress in a globally interdependent society relies more than ever on the unimpeded flow of information.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

With globalization mounting, the rules teaching us to live globally other than nationally are increasingly becoming meaningful

There must of course always be separate interests of different nations which their governments are bound to maintain, but there are also common interests in which all civilized nations share. These common interests arise from the interdependence of civilized peoples and they are a product of developing civilization.

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

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.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

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.

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.