Christine Feehan Quotes

As countries grapple with modernization, people who are left behind tend to hold firmer and firmer to their view of the evil of modernity.

The civilized world is far ahead of us. We have no choice but to catch up.

We must get on the train to modernism …. Bring the Arab citizen closer to modernity.

The march of progress must continue.

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Even with, or perhaps, because of, this background, I have over the past few years sensed a very dramatic change in attitude on the part of Prince Edward Islanders towards the on-going rush for so-called modernization.

Once we started to urbanize, we put ourselves on this treadmill. We traded away stability for growth. And growth requires change.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

Over the past thirty years Europe’s influence has transformed Cairo. Now…we are civilized.

It’s the confrontation with modernity that produces terrorism.

Modernization is found in markets.

20 centuries of progress have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account and a high opinion of himself but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment.

So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.

I am not afraid of new inventions or improvements, nor bigoted to the practices of our forefathers. It is that bigotry which keeps the Indians in a state of barbarism in the midst of the arts and would have kept us in the same state even now

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .

Even while I protest the assembly-line production of our food, our songs, our language, and eventually our souls, I know that it was a rare home that baked good bread in the old days. Mother’s cooking was with rare exceptions poor, that good unpasteurized milk touched only by flies and bits of manure crawled with bacteria, the healthy old-time life was riddled with aches, sudden death from unknown causes, and that sweet local speech I mourn was the child of illiteracy and ignorance. It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us.

We recognize the new order in the world, with the closer contacts which progress has wrought.

Progress is never accepted by everybody.

We are living in the jet-age, but we are governed by an Edwardian establishment mentality.

Since the war [WWII], the world has been rushing forward at an unprecedented and exhilarating speed … Yet Britain lags behind, lacking the will or the plan which can bring this future within the reach of us all.

Horse-and-Carriage diplomacy, like governance by crowned heads selected by accident of birth, proved wholly inadequate to address a crisis of the Electric Age.

Modernity is disruptive, and I endorse that.