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
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses. — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
My approach is not a scientific approach. For that, we have greater minds than mine. My approach is: I am in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well… — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to… — Seth Copy Share Image
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
The man who has lived his life totally, intensely, passionately, without any fear - without any fear that has been created in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When you have schools that are operating in the 20th century, and we're trying to prepare our children for the 21st century,… — Donna Edwards Copy Share Image
The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a… — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that the amount of time you live on earth is just an inverse reflection of how good you were… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear… — John Berger Copy Share Image
O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My dad had an aunt at the turn of the century who died from diabetes, but she was the closest affected relative… — Bobby Clarke Copy Share Image
The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself. — William Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Perhaps people need to understand some history here. Rene Descartes, in the late 16th, early 17th century, postulated that body, mind, physicality… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The very fears and guilts imposed by religious training are responsible for some of history's most brutal wars, crusades, pogroms, and persecutions,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Hereditary monarchy offers numerous advantages for America. It is the only form of government able to unify a heterogeneous people. Thanks to… — Florence King 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
