Betsy Hodges Quotes

The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of.

What they fear, I think rightly, is that traditional Vietnamese society cannot survive the American economic and cultural impact.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

I think the collision between the First and Third world is going to become more and more conspicuous. It's the big cliff that we've all got to climb.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.

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

World wide capitalism kills more people everyday then Hitler did. And he was crazy.

There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations.

John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.

The natural consequence of our submission, even in part, to the system that looks to compelling the export of raw products, the exhaustion of the land, the cheapening of labour, and the export of the labourer.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

Most problems in poor countries are locally generated even though international factors do play a role.

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

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.

In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.

Since the global economic crisis began, the change in global attitudes is clear to see - and I think it is pitiful. Barack Obama came to China and he is probably the only president of the United States never to mention the words 'human rights' in public.

The countries of the Middle East have been losers in the age of globalization, out of step in an age of free markets, free trade, and democratic politics.

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

The reigning model of economic globalization threatens earth’s life systems, undermines cultural integrity and diversity, and endangers the lives of many who are poor in order that some might consume exorbitantly and a few accumulate vast wealth.