Ariel Sharon Quotes

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

Nearly every country in the world is now becoming industrialized as rapidly as it can.

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.

Today, being the biggest developing countries in the world, China and India are both committed to developing their economy and raising their people's living standards.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

When I was a student there in the mid-1990s, they had just created the weekend; depth and individuality were slowly returning after the austere, colorless low of the 1970s. When I returned to live in China from 2005 to 2013, the country was building everything anew.

At the same time, we are keenly aware that China is still the largest developing country in the world and we need to make long and hard efforts if we are to build a moderately prosperous society in all respects and basically achieve modernization.

Industrial forces set in motion by steam and electricity have materially changed the structure of our civilization.

Modernization is found in markets.

In our State the locomotive has waked up the sleeping energies of a great people, and is transforming wasted fields into blooming gardens, and arousing men and women from the dull and heavy sleep that dwells with satisfaction upon the past, into the bright intelligence that looks to a glorious future ….

America…could within twenty years bring us to a degree of development which Turks, left to themselves, would not be able to achieve in a century. It would make Turkey prosperous, rich and happy and turn Turks into a strong and civilized nation.

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.

I think the modernization of Chinese economy and Chinese society is a prime concern.

China has lunged into the 21st century, while India is still lurching toward it.

I see in industrialization the central problem of building in our time. If we succeed in carrying out this industrialization, the social, economic, technical, and also artistic problems will be readily solved.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.

The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established.

My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

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

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

[France has to win] ... the great battle that every country has to fight to ensure its modernization and preserve its independence.