Global Village Quotes

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 is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

The world is in America. In Italy is only Italy. France is full of France. Germany is full of Germany. In a continent that contains the entire world, contradictions are, of course, constantly arising.

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

We are aware that globalization doesn't mean global friendship but global competition and, therefore, conflict. That doesn't mean we will all destroy each other, but it is no happy global village, either.

I can watch CNN on television or the Internet to find out what happened in Hong Kong ten minutes ago. After all, it doesn't matter where something is made, we're all part of the same big family now.

For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

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.

New York and Dublin are now suburbs of each other.

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

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

In a shrinking world, the absence of order among nations is becoming less and less tolerable.

Today we live in a global village but we don’t have our global elders to guide and inspire us.

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

Globalization causes job and income losses in certain sectors which exact significant psychological tolls. The government, therefore, has a responsibility to channel help from the winners to the losers.

It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make our world a truly global village, I believe there will come a time when war and armed conflict will be considered an outdated and obsolete method of settling differences among nations and communities.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

The modern airplane creates a new geographic dimension ... the world is small, the world is one.

In the digital world of today, one can say almost nothing is local.

The world map looks smaller than ever before.

I wouldn't say the nation-state is dead, but the Sovereignty has been greatly circumscribed ... even for a country as large as the U. S.