Quotes About Modernization

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

The death of the spirit is the price of progress.

L'agriculture moderne a certes résolu les insuffisances en terme quantitatifs, ce qui a permis la sécurité alimentaire, mais au prix d'une insalubrité croissante.

Yeah, well, it's not like the old days." I bit into my lobster roll. Maybe the best lobster roll in Boston, which made it, arguably, the best lobster roll in the world. "It's

In our haste to modernize under the banner of science, we seem to have gone too far in casting out all mystery and magic from our world.

Men and women who live all their lives in centrally heated homes and offices, and go in the car to post a letter and collect the children from school, and have labour-saving devices for every conceivable purpose (including electric tooth-brushes and carving-knives)—such people have become so sensually unaware and so unresponsive to physical challenges that they are only half-alive.

Any good business needs to stay on the leading edge of technology, and I want the same for our state.

Email is here to stay - it's time we got better at using it.

We will not continue to be in the post-'79 era. That age is over.

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Think about your organization – or that of one of your clients – and ask yourself whether things would be done differently if it was being launched today.

Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

These cities grew in approximately the same places as our cities do now, however different the shape of the continents was. There was even a New York that in some way resembled the New York familiar to all of you, but was much newer, or, rather, more awash with new products, new toothbrushes, a New York with its own Manhattan that stretched out dense with skyscrapers gleaming like the nylon bristles of a brand-new toothbrush.

La mayoría de países de América Latina han llegado al punto de "despegue" hacia el desarrollo económico y el consumo competitivo y, por lo tanto, hacia la pobreza modernizada: sus ciudadanos aprenden a pensar como ricos y vivir como pobres.

P3- modernised poverty combines the lack of power over circumstances with a loss of personal potency

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

The highest ethical duty is often to discard the outmoded ethics of the past." —Corliss Lamont, humanist philosopher

Even the word computer is outdated now that most people don't use their computer to compute anything at all—rather, it has become just like that big disorganized drawer everyone has in their kitchen, what in my family we called the junk drawer.

At the end of the day, you have to admit that it's just not cricket anymore; it is a multi-billion-dollar entertainment industry, that has to be viewed in a correct and sober perspective.

Legal discrimination between the sexes is, in almost every instance, founded on outmoded views of society and the pre-scientific beliefs about psychology and physiology. It is time to sweep away these relics of the past and set further generations free of them.

The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.

Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.

I should not romanticize the simplicity of a village. For instance, the place from where I used to buy a packet of glucose biscuits in my village is now selling cellphones.

I don't have any romantic notions about villages.