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
“THE END OF THE nineteenth century saw the rise of a movement thoroughly hostile to the underlying principles of the nation’s founding—the… — Mark R. Levin 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
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
The English were relatively short in the mid-nineteenth century and so their expeditions return with stories some exaggerated, not doubt about "giants"… — Richard H. Steckel 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
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
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
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
A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills,… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“itself as the “natural” advocate of democracy and human rights against the threat of totalitarianism—as if it were not the case that… — Slavoj Žižek 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
A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century Russian literature, swooning with compassion for the suffering brother, had created for Nerzhin, and for everyone reading it for the first… — 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… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and… — Bryan Stevenson 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
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
“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
“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.” — Robert Hughes 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
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
“Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other’s sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of… — Franklin Foer 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
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
“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
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
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
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization… — John Cage 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 the nineteenth century the Germans painted their dream and the outcome was invariably vegetable. The French needed only to paint a… — Theodor Adorno 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
“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
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates. — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
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