Towards the end of the eighteenth century the…

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

This revolution began with young people in Syria demonstrating because they wanted a future. They wanted opportunity, education, and so forth. They went out…

— John F. Kerry

“The gay revolution began as a literary revolution.”

— Christopher Bram

When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a…

— Wadah Khanfar

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members…

— Ralph Adams Cram

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and…

— William McKinley

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how…

— Henry James

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense…

— John Mearsheimer

“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a veneer of…

— Edouard Berth

“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)”

— Jerry Z. Muller

“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer…

— John Eliot Gardiner

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

— Frank Crowninshield