...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“American society was justly famed in the nineteenth century for the richness of its associational life. Indeed, as we have seen, Alexis… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
So much of my work is defined by the difference between the figure in the foreground and the background. Very early in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different… — Edwin O. Reischauer 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
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers… — Robert S Ellwood Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.” — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.” — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
I have been using the art of photography to research the ways in which the pictorial strategies of the Nineteenth Century color… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
“Up until the nineteenth century, the vast majority of military revolutions were the product of organisational rather than technological changes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. — William Weld Copy Share Image
Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century,” he observed, “Jules Verne wrote Round the World in Eighty Days. It seemed a prodigy. Now you can… — William Manchester Copy Share Image
the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views… — Oliver D. Crisp Copy Share Image
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at… — Joan Fontcuberta Copy Share Image
We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The international institutions go around the world preaching liberalization, and the developing countries see that means open up your markets to our… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“The history of the astronomy of the nineteenth century will be incomplete without a catalogue of his labours. He was one of… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind… — Amadeo Bordiga Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I believe that the biblical teaching is clear. It always contests political power. It incites to "counterpower," to "positive" criticism, to an… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
“You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story. Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the Twentieth century's moral poverty which… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
![“[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/371/h-l-mencken-245_all-time_thomas-henry-huxley-i-believe-was-the-gr_3218889.jpg)
![“Absolutely delightful, at first for its unspoiled picture of late-nineteenth-century Japan as seen through the eyes of three remarkable but very different Americans, [the missionary William Elliot Griffis [1843-1928], the scientist Edward Sylvester Morse [1838-1925], and the writer Lafcadio…” quote by Edwin O. Reischauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d32/edwin-o-reischauer-77819_barbarians_absolutely-delightful-at-first-for-its-u_3040751.jpg)
![“[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.” quote by Oliver D. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ae4/oliver-d-crisp-12863_century_jonathan-edwards-is-the-person-who-reall_2794909.jpg)
![“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions…” quote by Joan Fontcuberta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ed/joan-fontcuberta-39488_archives_photography-mirrored-the-nineteenth-cent_2622277.jpg)
