Quotes About Modernization

No nation can truly develop unless fanaticism, primitive superstitions and metaphysical non-sense are eradicated.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Policy-makers continue to discover that they cannot solve today's problems with yesterday's mindsets

Civilization is paralysis.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.

Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.

Improvement is not enough, you also needs innovation.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

Indian historian Romila Thapar has called the new 'syndicated Hinduism' of middle class urban India.

The idea of the "free man," as we understand it, is the product of a revolt against mediaeval and feudal ideas; and

The culture of the Old West, if it ever really did exist, had been tamed and replaced by the uniformity of the Walmart–strip mall–McDonald's homogenizing of America. It was happening in Minnesota, too. Hell, it was happening everywhere in the world.

It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments and large banks were actively managing industrial change.

I have nothing against sperm banks, but they should really get rid of those automatic teller machines.

Or was it a more sinister thing? Was the iPhone a malevolent protean organism, the stem-cell phone, mocking him who had cameras with real physical shutters whose sound you couldn't turn off? Promising to replace every other device on earth with its shape-shifting self—garage door openers, solar timers, television remotes, car keys, guitar tuners, GPS modules, light meters, spirit levels, you name it?

Old attitudes die hard, of course, and there will still be those who mourn the passing of the days when a single accent ruled the British airwaves. But they are a steadily shrinking minority.

The experience of living in this modernized world has, indeed, shaken many of the assumptions upon which belief rests. It does so most often in indirect ways. It is more the psychology of our times that undermines Christian belief than it is, say, the arguments against it mounted by the new atheists

These days, we don't dare carry Bibles with us openly. We gather in groups of two and three, and use our smart phones to download Scripture from the Internet. We meet long enough to read a passage, discuss its meaning, then encourage and pray for one another. After that we disband.

The industry is aging!

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Instead of eating exclusively from the sun, humanity now began to sip petroleum.