Stetson Kennedy Quotes

Globalization is a harsh god.

Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting... or blindly resistant.

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam will make a great change in the situation of man.

The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draw all, even the most barbarian of nations into civilization.

A completely industrialized society is of no consequence to me.

Americans today are blaming globalization for change itself and the pace of change, much of which has little to do with globalization.

The Industrial Revolution has two phases: one material, the other social; one concerning the making of things, the other concerning the making of men.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

The first thing we need to understand when we think about globalization is that it has benefited an enormous number of people who are not part of the global elite.

China's rise is really a kind of a world historical event. This is the largest country in the world. It has caused a wholesale substantial contraction of U.S. manufacturing employment.

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of carbon sitting under Saudi Arabia in the form of oil, and this carbon powered the Industrial Revolution, it put the 'Great' in Great Britain, and led to Britain's temporary world domination.

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad.

The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates.

The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words, there is nothing timeless or God-given about filling stations and penicillin and plastic bags.