Modernisation Quotes

• 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

  Country, Japan, Years

  "Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature: Lagerkvist-Pontoppidan". Book by Thomson Gale, 2007.

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• We want to be masters of our own destiny. We need no Gods or Emperors. We do not believe in the existence of any saviour. We want to be masters of the world and not instruments used by autocrats to carry out their wild ambitions. We want a modern lifestyle and democracy for the people. Freedom and happiness are our sole objectives in accomplishing modernisation.

  Wei Jingsheng

  Believe, Ambition, Destiny

  "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

  Aziz Ansari

  Time, Reading, Book

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• When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Generations, Shame, Appetite

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jun 29, 2013

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• I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.

  Margot James

  Party, Believe, Gay

  "Gay marriage debate: Tory MP warns party not to follow the Republican road" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• 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

  Ideas, Britain, Skeptic

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• 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

  Team, Office, London

  Vincent Cable's speech to the Lib Dem conference, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2005.

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