Anna Lindh Quotes

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

I believe that we will benefit more by globalisation.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

The global community has become irreversibly interdependent, with the constant movement of people, ideas, goods and resources.

It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

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

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

Every country is going to have to face up to globalisation, but Scotland has got a unique capacity because of its history as part of a multinational state to help us deal with that problem.

Globalisation feels like a runaway train, out of control.

With all the globalisation that has taken place, countries are a lot more interdependent and therefore 'coupled.'

Globalisation is under stress due to new and emerging geo-political and geo-economic faultlines.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

Neighbor is no longer confined to the vocabulary of the individual. It is a national word. Modern inventions have annihilated distance. Commercial relations have broken down barriers of race and religion, and the family of nations is a recognized fact.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

In the U.K., we have always been an open, trading nation, enriched by our global links. Contemporary patterns of migration extend this tradition.

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

The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.

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.

Like all social theories, internationalism must seek its basis in the economic and technical fields; here are to be found the most profound and the most decisive factors in the development of society.

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.