We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work. — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
In Europe, populism is sort of a dirty word, but we have this wonderful history of populism in America, including the abolitionist… — Zephyr Teachout 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
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
We do not want to think. We do not want to hear. We do not care about anything. Only give us a… — Ouida Copy Share Image
...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
The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth century ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share… — John Boyd Orr 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
Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. ... It… — Otto Lilienthal Copy Share Image
I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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
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
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
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
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely 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 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
In the nineteenth century, the central moral challenge was slavery. In the twentieth century, it was the battle against totalitarianism. We believe… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Do you know anything about silent films?" "Sure," I said. "The first ones were developed in the late nineteenth century and sometimes… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Plenty of the women who were single in the nineteenth century wrote about their desire to evade marriage. Marriage was scary in… — Rebecca Traister Copy Share Image
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake...… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, it was to the west and to the United States that such individuals looked for fame and fortune;… — Peter Frankopan Copy Share Image
The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“When we read Victorian novels, we are often misled into thinking how close that age is to our own; but when we… — John Bowen Copy Share Image
Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle,… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do -… — James Gleick 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
I don't know how it could be more stark or clear: this entire society is being dominated by corporate power in a… — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
These 21st-century 'teavangelicals,' who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism… — Joyce Appleby 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/i/371/h-l-mencken-245_all-time_thomas-henry-huxley-i-believe-was-the-gr_3218889.png)
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