Alexander Pope Quotes

Country [China] needs to continue opening up and keep connecting. It needs to realize that the world has become one. The old concept of isolation, the idea that you can solve your problems on your own does not work anymore - neither in cultural, economic, nor political terms.

The best nations are those most widely related; and navigation, as effecting a world-wide mixture, is the most potent advancer ofnations.

We are not leaving the EU, we are rejoining the rest of the world.

I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.

Instead of saying that globalization is a fact, that it's inevitable, we've also got to demonstrate that while the growing interdependence of the world economy is indeed a fact, it's not uncontrollable.

That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.

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

… spread the benefits and shrink the burdens all across the globe.

Humanity requires that nationalisms be overcome.

How pathetic indeed are the efforts of those leaders of human institutions who, in utter disregard of the spirit of the age, are striving to adjust national processes, suited to the ancient days of self-contained nations, to an age which must either achieve the unity of the world … or perish.

World government will come, but we do not know the date.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

We should join hands and meet the crisis together. The impact of the crisis could be felt in Asia and the rest of the world.

Globalization punctures borders.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.

The 21st century is significantly different from the 20th century. The old models will not hold anymore. More and more, we are one people on Earth. We need to share our problems.

The world is such a small place.

I think that America is the glue that holds the world together.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

Everyone has a role, no matter where you are on the globe.

In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.

For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

The human race has entered a stage where we are all dependent on each other. No other country or nation should be regarded in total separation from another, let alone pitted against another.