Before science, before the eighteenth century, religion answered the questions, and so in the nineteenth century for instance there was a real… — Nell Irvin Painter Copy Share Image
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are… — John Cage Copy Share Image
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes… — John Moody Copy Share Image
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
This we take it is the grand characteristic of our age. By our skill in Mechanism, it has come to pass, that… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices… — Henry Steele Commager 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 I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories… — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia Copy Share Image
There was a time, in the nineteenth century, for example, when women spoke mostly about the house, children, birth, and so forth,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in… — Michael Martin Hammer Copy Share Image
Men felt a chill in their hearts; a damp in their minds. In a desperate effort to snuggle their feelings into some… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
