In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics… — Thomas Pynchon 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
Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In the mid to late nineteenth century, the gun manufacturers recognized that they had a limited market. Remember that this is a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde 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
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by… — Arthur Peacocke Copy Share Image
The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female. — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No!… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar, — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to… — Fatema Mernissi Copy Share Image
Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more… — Paul Volcker Copy Share Image
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. .… — Kenneth Scott Latourette Copy Share Image
The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the… — Elgin Groseclose Copy Share Image
“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
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