Pacifist propaganda and the resolutions of the parliamentarians encouraged such treaties, and toward the end of the nineteenth century their number had… — Ludwig Quidde 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
One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean,… — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement… — Christopher Dawson 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
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the… — Anonymous 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
The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit… — George Ripley 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
It seems to be saying perpetually; 'I am the end of the nineteenth century; I am glad they built me of iron;… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
I still prefer going to the classical writers, the modernists and the nineteenth century writers. Much of what has been done since… — Pankaj Mishra 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
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