Quotes About Modernization

Writing in the 1950s, Daniel Bell, the great American sociologist, said, 'economic growth has become the secular religion of advancing industrial societies'.

We are entering the Dark Ages, my friend, but this time there will be lots of neon, and screen savers, and street lighting.

Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.

The Republican Party needs to, first of all, quit electing people in primaries that have prehistoric notions about women's issues.

Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

We need to build roads, bridges, airports, locks, dams, and rail that work for this century - not the last one. And let's not forget about updating our energy grid, repairing and replacing our water infrastructure and sewers, and making sure all Americans have access to broadband.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

Look at how the British covered India with railroads, and it is easy to view them as modernisers. Look, however, at the abysmal levels of mass illiteracy in the subcontinent they left behind in 1947, and they appear rather differently.

The establishment of rail line and railway network expansion has always been of prime importance.

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.

India's infrastructure deficit in terms of roads, railways, power, and ports needs to be addressed on a fast-track basis.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.

If you don't stay up with technology, you're gonna fall out of the loop and not make any money.

You're not gonna see me in 'Downton Abbey,' but culture is changing.

Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.

That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still the same old streets, and the wheels are likewise the same old wheels.

In England we agonised over the demolition of every old shack; in Sichuan, they just went ahead and flattened whole cities! You had to admire the brazen confidence of it, the conviction that the future would be better than the past.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

Canceling my landline phone account, cutting off service to my home for good, and rendering the telephones that had long sat on tables in every room as useless as my closeted bread machine, I took the final step in a lifelong attempt to free myself from the wires that tethered me.

Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.