Quotes About Modernization

It wasn't only the boosted experiences that bothered Rant. It was dipshit kids done up as soldiers and princesses and witches. Eating cake flavored with artificial vanilla. Celebrating a harvest that didn't occur anymore. Fruit punch that came from a factory. A ritual to placate ghosts, or whatever bullshit Halloween does, practiced by people who had no awareness of that. What bothered Rant was the fake, bullshit nature of everything.

The publicity of the present day causes that no sooner is a discovery or an invention made than it is already improved upon and surpassed by competing efforts.

Nossos pensamentos, sentimentos, desejos e ações estão sendo robotizados; 'vida' passa a significar aparelhos de alimentação e ser alimentados por eles. Em resumo: tudo está se tornando absurdo. Então, onde há espaço para a liberdade humana?

The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.

Ethics change with technology.

Así que ahora soy una chica casi civilizada. Ya tengo Visa y teléfono móvil. ¿Qué será lo próximo? ¿Ropa chula hiperceñida? ¿Un coche? ¿Novio?

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now.

Oh, we don't use rabbits anymore," the pretty young doctor laughed, slipping the needle into the soft crook of Marilyn's arm. "We use frogs now. Much faster and easier. Isn't modern science wonderful?

as technology has changed, so have our tools.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. ... We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?"

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

For reasons unknown, the philosophical aspect of the yoga movement has had to make way for the yoga fit revolution; today's image of a yogi is a slender and scantily clad young female doing postures on the cover of a bestselling magazine, whereas the older image was of an Indian man with long beard sitting in a cave wearing a loin cloth.

While all our ancient beliefs are tottering and disappearing, while the old pillars of society are giving way one by one, the power of the crowd is the only force that nothing menaces, and of which the prestige is continually on the increase. The age we are about to enter will in truth be the ERA OF CROWDS.

The society whose modernisation has reached the stage of integrated spectacle is characterised by the combined effect of five principal factors: incessant technological renewal, integration of state and economy, generalised secrecy, unanswerable lies, and eternal present . . . — The Society of the Spectacle

La historia del liberalismo mexicano y de su triunfo fue, en buena medida, la historia de una coerción modernizadora sobre un país sellado por sus tradiciones feudales.

Las Leyes de Reforma de 1856 fueron el clímax jurídico del triunfo de aquella cúpula modernizante sobre la sociedad real. Pero la ofensiva ilustrada había cruzado todo el siglo XIX, aun antes de la Independencia, bajo el signo del pensamiento de Melchor de Jovellanos.

El populismo es una continua tentación de la política latinoamericana, porque suele surgir de un hecho histórico también frecuente en nuestras sociedades: el de las modernizaciones inconclusas.

Sólo hay un remedio democrático sólido contra la tentación populista: el desarrollo mismo, la modernización incluyente.

Ninguna de esas cosas se conseguirá sin la gran asignatura pendiente de la modernización mexicana que es el gobierno de la ley, la aplicación de la ley, la igualdad ante la ley, la vigencia de la ley.