“itself as the “natural” advocate of democracy and human rights against the threat of totalitarianism—as if it were not the case that… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the middle of the nineteenth century, the United States embarked on a new relationship with death, entering into a civil war… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Although advertising began in the late nineteenth century with the development of the first branded products, its true explosion came in the… — Robert J. Gordon Copy Share Image
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“New York, in the late nineteenth century, was also an astonishingly dirty city for a variety of reasons. Only about half of… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Over a wide field of our economy it is still the better course to rely on the nineteenth century's "hidden hand" than… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Here was St. Augustine, the oldest city in the United States. How to build a hotel to meet the requirements of nineteenth… — Henry Flagler Copy Share Image
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby Copy Share Image
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we… — John Bowen Copy Share Image
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, it was to the west and to the United States that such individuals looked for fame and fortune;… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations… — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
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