Evan Osnos Quotes

We have built cities, developed industry and cultivated agriculture - we have transformed the State of Israel into an example and symbol for many other countries in the world.

I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.

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

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

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

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

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.

Technology is often not a prime mover but a second-order consequence of food surpluses, urbanization, secularism, political stability ... and other conditions that create a fertile climate for innovation.

China itself is now in the process of sloughing off not only the communist system, but also those outdated parts of Confucianism that prevent the rapid acquisition of knowledge needed to adjust to new ways of life and work.

Russia was the last to leave the 19th century and the most rapid to enter the mandates of the 20th century. It was not an evolution. It was not a slow process.

I've seen massive changes in Ireland in my lifetime.

Even if there have been setbacks during these past years, China is changing. China's society is opening.

Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.

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.

The '80s was the time for the great so-called modernization in Spain. It was a moment when it seemed that everything was breaking up and moving fast into modernity.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

Haiti has changed a lot.

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

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly.

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.

Deng Xiaoping made a calculation. He bet on demographics. What he knew was that China had this enormous population of young, underemployed people, people who he could move from the farms to the coast and put them to work in factories, and that would be the lifeblood of China's economy.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.