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World Quotes by Martin Jacques
- For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other civilizations. Because, at…
- Without doubt, Malaysia is the great economic star of the Muslim world.
- It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in…
- The more expensive and/or exclusive a sport, the whiter it tends to be: the fact almost has the force of a law. That is the…
- Our leaders increasingly see fit to lecture the ethnic minorities on the need to integrate, including of course the need to speak English. What about…
- The U.S. might enjoy overwhelming military advantage, but its relative economic power, which in the long run is almost invariably decisive, is in decline. The…
- An increasingly multipolar world requires an entirely different kind of U.S. foreign policy: far from being unilateralist, it necessitates a complex form of power-sharing on…
- Neoconservatism in all its pomp conceived - in the Project for a New American Century - that, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the…
- After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its…
- The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.
- The 21st century will be quite unlike the preceding two centuries, in which power was located in Europe and the U.S., and the rest of…
- The fact that television and tourism have made the whole world accessible has created the illusion that we enjoy intimate knowledge of other places, when…
- Globalisation has obliterated distance, not just physically but also, most dangerously, mentally. It creates the illusion of intimacy when, in fact, the mental distances have…
- There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in…
- Europe must learn to live in and with the world, not to dominate it nor to assume it is superior or more virtuous.
- When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach