Dennis C. Blair Quotes

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

It will take a long time, and certainly the West will remain the dominant civilization well into the next century, but the decline is occurring.

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Do you believe that life today is the same as it was 10 centuries ago? This tremendous change was produced by the West. Who else produced it?

The industrial competition of China would be incomparably more dangerous to Western civilization than that of any other nation, not only because of its multiformity, but also because it is a competition to which nature has set no climatic limits. Thrifty and patient and cunning as Jews, the Chinese can accommodate themselves to any climate and to any environment….. Once China has been penetrated by the forces of Western civilization, her population will begin to display new activities, and to expand in all possible directions. Chinese competition will have to be faced, probably, very much sooner than had been expected.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

Globalization doesn't have to be a bad thing as long as government provides us all with the tools to cope in a changing world.

There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West.

We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The economy develops. We have risen to become the world's greatest power.

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

What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?

For me, the future isn't coming from the USA, like it was before.

We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

In my mind globalization means returning the industrial revolution back to square one.

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.

The main occupation of society has changed from fighting to business, from military to industrial life.