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“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...”

Inner Peace Modernisation Islamic Audiobooks Central

Book:The Search for Inner Peace

Source: The Search for Inner Peace

“Bizim için muasırlaşmak demek, Avrupalılar gibi otomobiller, tayyareler yapıp kullanabilmek demektir, muasırlaşmak şekilce ve maişetçe Avrupalılara benzemek değildir.”

Modernism Modernisation Modernizm Asriyyet Muasırlaşmak çAğdaşlaşma

Book:Türkleşmek, İslamlaşmak, Muasırlaşmak

Source: Türkleşmek, İslamlaşmak, Muasırlaşmak

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

West Western Modernization Westernization Modernisation Westernisation

Book:OUR WOMEN

Source: 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.”

Community Modernisation

Author:Jung Yun

“The world was, day by day, becoming a more convenient, and unromantic, place.”

Book:The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Source: The City and Its Uncertain Walls

“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.”

Years Two Country Hundred Opposites Twenties Opening Observation Japan Splits Ambiguity Present Day Two Opposites Modernisation

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“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.”

“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.”

Feels Book Problem Time Reading Millions Modern Worst Internet Computer Pages Spending Reading Books Actuality Modernisation

Author:Aziz Ansari

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Shows Generations Shame Satisfied Appetite Show Me Secularism Monstrous Modernisation

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“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.”

Ideas Whole Britain Consistently Hostile Skeptic Modernisation

Author:Neil Kinnock

“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.”

Has Beens Deals Team Office London Billions Disaster Brown Taxpayers Modernisation

Author:Vince Cable