Victor Davis Hanson Quotes

Globalization cannot take shape without the speed of light.

Globalization is the speed of light.

I think globalization has been really good for America.

Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The same thing happened with the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.

The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.

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

You can't stop globalization any more than you can stop computers.

Globalization punctures borders.

We’re not at the endpoint of globalization but somewhere near the starting line.

The railway, the steamship, and there telegraph are rapidly mobilizing the people of the earth. The nations are coming our of their isolation, and distances which separated the different races are rapidly giving way before the extension of communication.

Globalization can be a great opportunity.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

I think the Internet is the greatest invention since women.

Barriers are being brought down by technology through the Internet.

Because of the internet, satellite TV, and the digital world, you can stay in touch, you can learn about other people from a young age.

We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin. And people discuss it in a way that makes it seem so impersonal. But globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

I would say the first key concept is that, in terms of technological and communication progress in human history, the Internet is basically the equivalent of electronic telepathy. We can now communicate all the time through our little magic smartphones with people who are anywhere, all the time, constantly learning what they're thinking, talking about, exchanging messages. And this is a new capability even within the context of the Internet.

Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.

Never in history has distance meant less.