Global Interdependence Quotes

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

Globalization is the speed of light.

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

All the nations and peoples are too closely knit together today for any one of them to imagine that it can live apart. Peace has been said to be indivisible, so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this one world that can no longer be split into isolated fragments.

Globalization - and I think we share this conviction - is that globalization needs to be shaped politically, it needs to be given a human face, but we cannot allow to fall back into plagued globalization times.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest. Just because we are a large country, we cannot be arrogant and think that we can ignore others. We live in a different era. Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries. International summits and organizations like WTO take decisions which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.

We can choose isolationism, withdrawal and nationalism. This is an option. It can be tempting to us as a temporary remedy to our fears. But closing the door to the world will not stop the evolution of the world. It will not douse, but inflame the fears of our citizens

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

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.

Thus may be envisioned a United States of the World. Ultimately, it will surely come.

Does anyone seriously contend that any nation can fend for itself?

If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

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

For the first time in history all people on earth have a common present…. Every country has become the moat immediate neighbor of every other country, and every man feels the shock of events which take place at the other end of the globe.

We are only 5 percent of the world's population and 20 percent of the world's economy. We have to be able to trade in order to grow.

Today, the world is so small and so interdependent that the concept of war has become anachronistic, an outmoded approach. As a rule, we always talk about reform and changes. Among the old traditions, there are many aspects that are either ill-suited to our present reality or are counterproductive due to their shortsightedness. These, we have consigned to the dustbin of history. War too should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

What we apparently have failed to grasp is that, in this new world in which we live, the collective hunger of great masses of people, wherever they may be, will affect our long-range welfare, just as though they were our own people.

Globalisation thus implies that sovereignty...needs to become weaker.