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  • We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. -- Leonard Slatkin
  • With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products. -- Suzy Menkes
  • The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money. -- Dan Kaminsky
  • In the future, I think it's pretty plausible that collective intelligence tools and skills will be important in order to be a part of global dialog, global business, and global creativity. People who know how to negotiate collective intelligence networks are going to be in a good position to contribute to global society. -- Jane McGonigal
  • The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace -- Karen Armstrong
  • I believe that the problem of global climate change will ultimately spur our global society to respond and while the condition does not appear to be reversible, we will find ways to adapt to it. -- Vinton Cerf
  • The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible. -- Paul Raskin
  • We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives. -- Mahnaz Afkhami
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  • At the dawn of the 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the Information Age and the global society, to unleash the limitless potential of all our people, and yes, to form a more perfect union. -- William J. Clinton
  • Fundamental, Bible believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in. -- Peter Hoagland
  • Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us. -- Don Lemon
  • In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
  • As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God's word to justify bigotry and persecution. -- Joyce Meyer
  • There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global society has evolved a highly efficient way to get entertainment to rich adults and children, while it can't get twelve-cent medicine to dying poor children. -- William Easterly
  • In its current form, globalization cannot be sustained. Democratic societies will not support it. Authoritarian leaders will fear to impose it. -- John J. Sweeney
  • Russians clearly perceive America's global influence as being in irreversible decline and American society shattered by major political, economic and ideological crises. -- Ivan Krastev
  • Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community. -- Kofi Annan
  • There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. -- Maajid Nawaz
  • Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. -- Ulrich Beck
  • An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • My feeling is that if you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. -- Peter Diamandis
  • One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. -- Maajid Nawaz
  • The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. -- Julian Assange
  • Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict. -- Malcolm Mclaren
  • After the ignominious collapse of the Copenhagen global climate change summit in 2009, Bolivia organised a People's Summit with 35,000 participants from 140 countries - not just representatives of governments, but also civil society and activists. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence. -- Jared Diamond
  • Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. -- Aman Mojadidi
  • That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things. -- Mary Hansen
  • Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local. -- Jose Padilha
  • The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments. -- Hans Rosling
  • Global libertarianism would be a borderless world society. -- Bryant McGill
  • We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society -- Mahnaz Afkhami
  • Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge. -- Vaclav Havel
  • A global human society, characterised by islands of wealth, surrounded by a sea of poverty, is unsustainable -- Thabo Mbeki
  • If you can make a big impact on the global literacy problem, you can uplift a big portion of society. -- Peter Diamandis
  • A society living by the laws of the world is moving towards a global crisis in all its spheres of life. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming. -- Richard Lindzen
  • Society's emissions of carbon dioxide may or may not turn out to have something significant to do with global warming-the jury is still out. -- Edward Teller
  • Without freedom, creativity cannot flourish. The right to freedom is crucial to progress in any society; and the context is having a sense of global responsibility. -- Dalai Lama
  • The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. -- Renata Adler
  • Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society. -- Michael Shermer
  • The research carried out in the area of language technology is of utmost importance for the consolidation of Portuguese as a language of global communication in the information society. -- Pedro Passos Coelho
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