Mark Fisher Quotes

I believe that nationalism is a very strong force, but there are other forces operating; there are tendencies pushing towards a larger picture, especially in Europe, I think; but I still think nationalism is real.

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

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.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

For virtually every area of public policy there is a globalist proposal, consistent with the overall objective of reducing individual nation-state autonomy, particularly that of the United States?

Increasingly national boundaries are unable to contain ideas, money or even people.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

People tend to migrate from the third world to the metropolises of the very countries that once dominated them. Algerians to Paris; Puerto Ricans to New York; Pakistanis to London.

The United States is now, as the defunct Soviet Union was decades ago, the subversive agent of a world revolution.

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.

Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tie does not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

In a global world, nationalism is a fantasy, and it's poison. It used to be appropriate, but it's not anymore, and we haven't learned that lesson yet.

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.

I still feel Ghanaian, but my mentality is more European.

My mother is a German who was brought up in the U.K. So, there is so much cross-cultural exposure I had as a child. But Mumbai is my city.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

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

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.