George Soros Quotes

The Great Convergence: Asia, the West and the Logic of One World.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?

Globalization is blurring the distinction between foreign affairs and domestic politics.

Local and national politics have now become irretrievably global because their economies are locked into the global system.

The more globalized the world becomes, the less traumatic it is for nationalists to split from their states.

The development of science has produced an industrial revolution which has brought different peoples in such close contact with one another through colonization and commerce that no matter how some nations may still look down upon others, no country can harbor the illusion that its career is decided wholly within itself.

National boundaries are blurred by advanced communications and global commerce, and by the decisions of States to yield some sovereign prerogatives to larger, common political associations.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Maybe Americans feel they don't need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don't have that option.

It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate.

Globalization is now no longer an objective but an imperative, as markets open and geographic barriers become increasingly blurred and even irrelevant.

The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

Stop viewing China like it's the Cold War. Start viewing them as a modern member of the industrialized world.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

In the modern world, those who are weak will get unambiguous advice from foreign visitors which way to go and what policy course to pursue.

Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.