The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the… — William Winwood Reade 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
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. .… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century 'emancipated' them from history, women… — Mary Ritter Beard 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
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
“Sometimes it seems that for nineteenth-century Russian writers, food was what landscape (or maybe class?) was for the English. Or war for… — Anya von Bremzen Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The acceptability of birth control has always depended on a morality that separates sex from reproduction. In the nineteenth century, when the… — Linda Gordon Copy Share Image
I guess I am nostalgic for a time - the nineteenth century and early twentieth - when writers were, to use Stefan… — Pankaj Mishra 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 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
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
The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going… — John Herschel 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
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Before the discovery of quinine in the mid-nineteenth century, white armies could not survive in malarial regions, however superior their weapons might… — James Dale Davidson Copy Share Image
From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian… — Barbara Mertz Copy Share Image
If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds… — Wilhelm Ostwald Copy Share Image
Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested,… — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
In no other field has the world yet paid so dearly for the abandonment of nineteenth-century liberalism as in the field where… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The golden age of equal rights in Spain was a myth, and belief in it was a result, more than a cause,… — Bernard Lewis Copy Share Image
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men… — James L. Stokesbury Copy Share Image
[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
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