Top 34 Modernize Quotes
#1. Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
Jack Valenti
#2. When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.
Eric Hoffer
#3. The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.
Henry David Thoreau
#4. Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Putin
#5. What the American people must never forget - is that when Fascism comes to America
it will come wrapped in American flag
Arthur Kinoy
#6. Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
Mason Cooley
#7. Listen, To be modernize it doesn't mean to be rich in wealth or by status but to be rich in wisdom ... !
M.H. Rakib
#8. The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.
Bobby Jindal
#9. I don't remember all my successes, but I do remember failures.
Frank Lowy
#10. The only organized political party with a Christian vision of morality is the Libertarian Party.
Walter E. Williams
#11. A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.
D.B.C. Pierre
#12. Our intention is to clarify and modernize overtime pay rules,
Elaine Chao
#13. [My father and his friends] believed in equality for women without troubling to acquire the basic domestic skills which would have made that equality possible.
P.D. James
#14. Russia's fundamental problem is not that it is a poor country struggling to modernize, but rather that it is a rich country struggling to modernize. Schoolchildren in the Soviet era were taught that they lived in the richest country in the world. In this case communist propaganda was true
Fareed Zakaria
#15. Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.
Rupert Murdoch
#16. 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.
Denny Sargent
#17. Until Islam can do what Judaism and Christianity have done - question, critique, interpret, and ultimately modernize its holy scripture - it cannot free Muslims from a host of anachronistic and at times deadly beliefs and practices.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#18. To modernize their sleeping habits, [Peter the Great] declared, 'Ladies and gentlemen of the court caught sleeping with their boots on will be instantly decapitated.
Bob Massie
#19. Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'
Robert Zoellick
#20. We did a lot right with the voters with whom we've enjoyed traditional support. But we haven't done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.
Kevin Madden
#21. If it were my decision, I'd knock the Superdome down. If I couldn't knock it down, I'd just open the roof and gut the whole inside - totally modernize it. If you just dust it off and paint a little bit but don't reimage it, the legacy will be horrible.
Ray Nagin
#22. Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.
James Cook
#23. There are not as many women who support the national defense budget now as men. I really think there is a gender gap in the support for the large expenditures that are necessary to modernize the force.
Ted Stevens
#24. I don't hate other women. Let me rephrase that: I hate other women and men - people in general can be annoying - but I've never disliked a woman for being beautiful.
Iliza Shlesinger
#25. In my opinion, the difference between the crusaders and us was a matter of degree. Europe's medieval Catholics claimed their goal was to save Muslims from purgatory; we claimed that we wanted to help the Saudis modernize.
John Perkins
#26. The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
Akihito
#27. Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
Amish Tripathi
#28. The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.
Maggie Q
#29. The things which are denied to us in life will never create a cage for our souls.
Alexandra Bracken
#30. My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.
Gene Wilder
#31. I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.
Roy Harper
#32. The Postal Service needs tools to modernize and compete. That is why today I am a cosponsor of H.R. 22, the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act.
Joe Baca
#33. The reason Ataturk, Kemal Ataturk was and is so highly reputed, is he was attempting to modernize ... That's not the right word. Well, it is. For lack of a better way of saying it, he was trying to make Islam compatible with the modern twentieth century world.
Rush Limbaugh
#34. The instability in the region is not a result of Israel and the Palestinians. That was never the cause of this instability. Instead, the disfunctionality of many of these societies that have failed to modernize.
Benjamin Netanyahu
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