Quotes of Modernize - somelinesforyou

“ When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. ”

- Eric Hoffer

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

- Akihito

“ Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl. ”

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“ The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism… ”

- Elwyn Brooks White
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