Franklin Foer Quotes

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.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Globalization is a complex issue, partly because economic globalization is only one part of it. Globalization is greater global closeness, and that is cultural, social, political, as well as economic.

It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.

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

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

For the first time in history all people on earth have a common present…. Every country has become the moat immediate neighbor of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe.

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.

In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.

Pretty surreal experience to see the impact football has had globally.

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.

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

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

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

The world is such a small place.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

I'm a street footballer and you still get street footballers from Africa, South Africa and really poor parts of Europe.

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

I go overseas, and all the soccer players come to me, like, 'Yeah bro, we always play 'Mo Bamba.'' It's crazy.

we are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.

You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.