Yuval Noah Harari Quotes

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

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.

The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women.

I believe that national sovereignties will shrink in the face of universal interdependence.

The world has gotten so interwoven.

With globalization mounting, the rules teaching us to live globally other than nationally are increasingly becoming meaningful

We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.

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

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

I know somebody in every culture.

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.

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.

I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey to Iran to Israel, and then grew up in Italy and ended up in U.S. for graduate school. So I tend to look at things from an international perspective, and I think that gives you a little bit of a broader view of what's going on.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

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

I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about time we examine how we interact with the rest of the world we live in.

In the States, you can buy Chinese food. In Beijing you can buy hamburger. It's very close. Now I feel the world become a big family, like a really big family. You have many neighbors. Not like before, two countries are far away.

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

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.

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

We are on the cusp of this time where I can say, "I speak as a citizen of the world" without others saying, "God, what a nut.

The United States, of course, is determined to diversify Europe to such an extent that it becomes a meaningless entity.

In this shrinking world, it is futile to seek safety behind geographical barriers.