Global Disconnect Quotes

I am neither a sociologist nor a psychologist, but you don't have to be one to see that Turkey is in a vortex of problems, isolated from the world.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

This is a grave danger: the stoppage of information between the parts of the planet. Contemporary science knows that such stoppage is the way of entropy, of universal destruction.

People aren't really aware of what's happening in other places.

The Internet was supposed to bring people together, but it's created big divisions.

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.

I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.

The world is not quite as inter-dependent as advertised. What happens in the poorest, most marginalized, and most dysfunctional places in the developing world only rarely comes back to bite those living in the wealthy world. What happens in failed states often stays in failed states.

People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.

'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?