Amartya Sen Quotes

Globalization really is a concrete, fundamental fact in everybody's lives, and you really see that come to life in soccer stadiums.

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

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

Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

I think the whole progress over the last two or three millennia has been entirely dependent on ideas and techniques and commodities and people moving from one part of the world to another. It seems difficult to take an anti-globalization view if one takes globalization properly in its full sense.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The young people of every nation are coming to resemble each other more and more, and are slowly becoming strangers to chauvinism and racism.

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

Peace is movement towards globality and universality of civilization

Globalization is the speed of light.

Globalization today is a globalization of markets, not a globalization of democracy.

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

Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can ignore all the outer world.

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 can choose isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism. This is an option. It can be tempting to us as a temporary remedy to our fears. But closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world. It will not douse, but inflame the fears of our citizens

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.

Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

China's influence is growing; it is natural that they want to integrate more, do more business with countries around them, and the Belt and Road is a constructive way in which they can do so.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.