Fareed Zakaria Quotes

I just look at what's going on in the world.

In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

On some level, now, we are joining the larger world and realizing that we are connected with people in these very scary ways, sometimes. What happened recently in Spain affects us here and brings questions up. It is too bad that people have to be shaken up in that way.

Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of world change than the United States, and few societies are more intellectually aware of the nature of the issues that have to be faced.

We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

The world is opening up. We all learn what is happening elsewhere. … The individual is fast becoming aware of his or her rights.

Probably the biggest thing about the shaping of our future is that it won’t be shaped in the United States.

What happens in the Philippines, Japan, and Korea has a greater impact on us than most events in Massachusetts.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

For the first time in history all people on earth have a common present…. Every country has become the moat immediate neighbor of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe.

In many ways, America is on the receiving end of a pendulum that has been swung with great force, and for a long time, outward into the world. The impact is a wake-up call on every level.

We've moved from a small world on a big planet to a big world on a small planet.

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

How we live our lives in the Western world has impacts on the rest of the world.

The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.

We live in an ever-changing global pop culture community.

That really makes you feel good when guys are using some of your terminology and some of your plays in a different country.

The world is such a small place.

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.

In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others.

You can't be too far away from your BlackBerry because if there's a development anywhere around the world, it impacts the White House.

The world is becoming smaller every day.