Quotes About Modernization

The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where this is no longer a part of our experience.

A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.

nos enfrentamos a un eclipse de nuestra vida católica tradicional como fuerza visible con algún nivel de eficacia. También opino, eminencia, que el papa debe considerar la estructura tradicional de su Iglesia como algo inútil y pasado de moda, puesto que permite su decadencia. Si ésa no es su idea, no hay otra forma de comprenderlo que como totalmente aberrante y negligente de su responsabilidad pontificia como papa.

Si queremos modernizar al país, tenemos que comenzar por modernizar nuestra política

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

In the half century after 1950, the global economy grew sixfold. Annual economic growth averaged 3.9 percent per year, far outstripping the estimated historical averages for the industrial age up to that point (1820–1950) of 1.6 percent per year and for the "early modern," post-Columbian world (1500–1820) of 0.3 percent per year

Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

They had not grown up in the paradoxes of industry. Their senses were still sharp to the ridiculousness of the industrial life.

The little engine roared and then stopped. Adam sat back for a moment, limp but proud, before he got out. The postmaster looked out between the bars of his golden grill. I see you've got one of the damn things, he said. Have to keep up with the times, said Adam. I predict there'll come a time when you can't find a horse, Mr. Trask. Maybe so. They'll change the face of the countryside. They get their clatter into everything, the postmaster went on.

The new American finds his challenge and his love in traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the townlets wither a time and die.

But this tractor does two things—it turns the land and turns us off the land. There is little difference between this tractor and a tank.

But now nuns have blended into everybody else or else faded away. Vocations drying up, nobody wants to be selfless anymore, everybody wants their fun.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

If our founding fathers were alive today, they'd roll over in their graves.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

in spite of having witnessed the birth of the telephone they decline to believe in the aeroplane.

Since railways came into existence, the necessity of not missing the train has taught us to take account of minutes whereas among the ancient Romans, who not only had a more cursory science of astronomy but led less hurried lives, the notion not of minutes but even of fixed hours barely existed.

As I see it, the word "private" is going plumb out of date. It's goin' to be an ole-fashioned concep', mark my words. That's a prophecy.

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

Mother, who had never missed a chance to fulminate against the evils of our time including privatisation, Jeremy Clarkson, and pay-day loans.

The suffering of the conquered and colonized people appears as a necessary sacrifice and the inevitable process of modernization. This logic has been applied from the conquest of America until the Gulf War, and its victims are as diverse as indigenous Americans and Iraqi Civilians. Enriqué Dussel, The Invention of the Americas