Contagion Quote by Lawrence Summers Download Open image “Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.” — Lawrence Summers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contagion Globalization Phenomenon
'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
'Contagion' should serve as a wake-up call not only about the germs, but perhaps more importantly about the frailty of governance, nationally and worldwide. — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility. — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well. — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most. — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
Globalization is not a monolithic force but an evolving set of consequences - some good, some bad and some unintended. It is the new… — John B. Larson Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
I promise you that there are a lot of people involved in various kinds of retail activities who think they have a crucial role… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
I have always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today. Our prosperity is… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working? — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
The United States basically accepted protection abroad as the price of post-war recovery. Now, that these countries have caught up to our level of… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole Copy Share Image
“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.” — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight… — Steven Ramirez Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Hauntings are memes, especially pernicious thought contagions, social contagions that need no viral or bacterial host and are transmitted in a thousand different ways.… — Caitlín R. Kiernan Copy Share Image
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
If I had political responsibility, I would want to prepare for a plan B that would foresee that the European currency union, that the… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image