"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 changed little. It has concertinaed the world without engendering the necessary respect, recognition and tolerance that must accompany it."

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Source : "We are globalised, but have no real intimacy with the rest of the world" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2006.

Martin Jacques

#Distance Quotes #Tolerance Quotes #World Quotes

“I used biomechanics to save time when I was competing.”
“Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.”
“The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.”
“I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual truth of anything; it was designed in the darkest days of human history to produce false confessions in order to annihilate political and religious dissidents. And that is how it always works: it gets confessions regardless of their accuracy.”

Source : "Imaginationland". "The Daily Dish", www.theatlantic.com. October 25, 2007.
“It's not very smart to piss off a guy who thinks about killing people for a living.”
“Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.”

Source : "Yoga Deepens Its Roots in the West" by Ravé Mehta, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2014.
“And when the storms came through They found me and you Back together And when the sun would shine It was yours and mine. Yours and mine forever.”

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