William Greider Quotes

Today the fate of humankind is even more crucially linked than ever before. The boundaries between the problems of 'others' and 'our' problems are being increasingly erased.

The destiny of the well-to-do is not separate from the destiny of the ordinary people.

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

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.

Build a global economy that will lift up—and not drag down—our people and all the people of the world.

For weal or for woe, the peoples of mankind are knit together far closer than ever before..

In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.

You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.

Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

No nation, rich or poor, democratic or authoritarian, can escape the fundamental economic imperatives of the global market. No nation can escape its discipline. No nation can avoid its responsibility to do its part

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

We recognize and accept our own deep involvement in the destiny of men everywhere.

There is no single sustainable model for national success. … the American model, which has indeed been successful, is not available to others, because our success depends greatly on our dominant position at the center of the global capitalist system, and we are not willing to yield it.

In an interdependent world …, the idea that American can have of the blessings of globalization but none of the burdens doesn’t add up.

In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism - going it alone - has been disastrous. It's becoming increasingly clear that we're all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.

As our world gets more interconnected, no one country or region can meet development challenges on its own.

We have be-come irrevocably involved with, and responsible for, each other.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence. The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: We are all in the same boat.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative.

To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.

As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.