Octavio Paz Quotes

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.

Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

You're sort of programmed a certain way because of your environment. That's all you know. But we don't have that anymore because of the internet. Because of the internet we're all communicating with each other all across the board, so you're getting information from people all around the world, hitting a much more diverse slice of culture.

You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.

To start with, I love New York... It's a little bit of the whole world... In New York, the whole world comes to you.

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

America is not the center of the universe.

In this century of hyper-postmodern ideals, with the digital future, we're segmented into different people, places, and things in a constant state of change.

I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

When I go to Iran, I see... that there are all different shades and colors in Iran, from atheist to religious zealot. So Iran is no different than any other country. I mean, they are connected with the rest of the world.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from so many different backgrounds, is one of our greatest advantages.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

India is a reservoir of alternative interpretations of what the global is, and these ways of viewing the world need to be exposed.

I don't even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.

After so many years, I feel more American than anything else, but I'm also Romanian and whatever other oddities of temperament I picked up elsewhere, in Transylvania or France, for instance. These days, everybody is both an exile and a resident - they don't call it the global village for nothing.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

We live in a global society today where all our cultures intermingle.

We are surrounded by people with accents because America is a nation of immigrants. Beyond that, the people who made your iPhone and the shirt on your back are probably Asians, and we're really not that disconnected from each other; we have very intimate relationships with the world, whether or not we realize it.