Lech Walesa Quotes

If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example.

The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge.

The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family.

In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

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

We have travelled so far in our technical advancements that we are no longer located in our own countries.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

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

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

We face a world where borders matter less and less.

Globalization punctures borders.

… ideas. commodities even, refuse the bounds of a nation. All are inextricably connected…. This is true especially of our modern world with its complex commerce and means of intellectual connection.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

The world is such a small place.

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

We link our future to the euro, to the euro zone, and to the European Union while being the nearest neighbor of the United Kingdom with, obviously, a common travel area and a very close working relationship with the U.K.

Our lives are slowly but surely becoming connected to each other.

I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

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.

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