Modernisation Quotes

“Technological advancement and modernisation have not brought inner peace and tranquillity. Rather, in spite of the creature comforts that modernisation has brought us, we are further away from inner peace than our ancestors were. Inner peace is for the most part of our lives very elusive; we never seem to get our hands on it...”
― Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips, The Search for Inner Peace

“Bizim için muasırlaşmak demek, Avrupalılar gibi otomobiller, tayyareler yapıp kullanabilmek demektir, muasırlaşmak şekilce ve maişetçe Avrupalılara benzemek değildir.”
― Ziya Gökalp, Türkleşmek, İslamlaşmak, Muasırlaşmak

“The trouble with the nations of the West is that they are young, fickle, foolish and wealthy.”
― Swami Vivekananda, OUR WOMEN

“She doesn't recognise anything resembling the neighbourly sense of care or concern now, and she wonders how change like this is measured. What kind of stat or metric registers this kind of loss? Maybe that's why everyone gathered along the road seems unfazed by what they're seeing, why they talk about the fire like it's something that's happening to a company rather to a community, a people. How different this is from her childhood.”
― Jung Yun

“The world was, day by day, becoming a more convenient, and unromantic, place.”
― Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls