Quotes about Globalism

The average European, whether male or female, is extremely sensitive, always ready to shoulder the blame for the poverty of Africa or Asia, to sorrow over the world's problems, to assume responsibility for them, always ready to ask what Europeans can do for the South rather than asking what the South could do for itself.

Parthians, Medes, and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

The world is my country, mankind are my friends, to do good is my religion.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.

Much of the alarm hovering at the borders, the gates, is stoked, it seems to me, by (1) both the threat and the promise of globalism and (2) an uneasy relationship with our own foreignness, our own rapidly disintegrating sense of belonging. Let me begin with globalization. In

You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.

All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Denial of Russia in the name of humanity it is - robbing humanity