Os Guinness Quotes

We are living in a global world - but most schools and books still tell us only parochial histories of one particular country or culture. The truth is that there are no longer any independent countries in the world.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I am a citizen of the world, and also a citizen of Ukraine.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.

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.

I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

I am as much a citizen of the world as I am of my country.

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

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

American audiences very rarely deal with material outside their borders.

We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.

The world itself is already a great textbook.

I grew up with all cultures in the world.

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

But I don't think of myself as a foreigner or a Frenchman! I just think of myself as a director. Whether I'm French or Australian or whatever, it's really not important.

The Filipino embraces civilization and lives and thrives in every clime, in contact with every people.

I know somebody in every culture.

I get much more information about the rest of the world from people who are not Americans. You get a distance from America that is useful for a journalist; useful for my perspective on the world.