Quotes About Modernisation

#1. I'm basically an optimist because I do think there's this historical modernisation process, and by and large it's been very beneficial to people. But there are blips. History doesn't proceed in a linear way.

Francis Fukuyama

#2. It's not just parliament that requires radical modernisation. It's our democratic processes.

David Blunkett

#3. The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.

Pankaj Mishra

#4. I take notice of those who have argued consistently for the modernisation of the E.U., but so many of the skeptics in Britain are just hostile to the whole European idea.

Neil Kinnock

#5. As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

Li Keqiang

#6. My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

Kenzaburo Oe

#7. Football is a personal interest which has been turned into a philanthropic initiative directed at encouraging social cohesion during the difficult process of African modernisation.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

#8. Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

Vince Cable

#9. The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

Bruno Latour

#10. A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that.

Ambrose Bierce

#11. And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too.

Sam Donaldson

#12. If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.

Colin Trevorrow

#13. what actually made Poles happy was listening to someone telling them what to do, and then doing the exact opposite.

Dave Hutchinson

#14. Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around.

Tommy James

#15. I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Jenny Slate