The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century. — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image
Late 19th-century populists saw bankers and industrialists manipulating markets to enrich themselves at the expense of small farmers and labourers and favoured… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals. — Gordon Getty Copy Share Image
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think,… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. — Douglas Sirk Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known… — Petr Skrabanek Copy Share Image
One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In the same period that the Americans have lived under one constitution our French friends notched up five. A Punch cartoon has… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form.… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
One of the central developments of 19th century mathematics involved a dramatic increase in the standards of mathematical rigor. This was for… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
The 19th century was the great period of engineering, thanks to the railways, thanks to lots of discoveries in metallurgy. — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
Nine English traditions out of ten date from the latter half of the nineteenth century. — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
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