Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially… — Sandra Scarr 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
The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded… — Henry Louis Gates 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
During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic… — Martin Filler 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
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet… — George Bernard Shaw 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
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
In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes… In mid-nineteenth-… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
It was only in the late nineteenth century and then the twentieth century, with the maturation of consumer capitalism, that a shift… — Rodney Clapp Copy Share Image
History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his… — D. A. Fisher Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself… — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
“The nineteenth-century connection is now clear. The nineteenth century is the last time when it was possible for an educated person to… — Richard Dawkins 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
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty.… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“At the dawn of the nineteenth century, many parts of the world, especially in Africa, lacked a state that could provide even… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The Irish were treated horribly, even here in Boston. For example, in the late nineteenth century they were treated pretty much like… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“From a long view of the history of mankind-seen from, say, ten thousand years from now-there can be little doubt that the… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
It's strange that in an age when we pride ourselves on our independence of thought we meekly submit without further question to… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Nineteenth-century America was gone; twentieth-century America was alien. “All that I thought American in a true sense is gone, and I see… — Edith Wharton 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
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
Hyper-selectionism has been with us for a long time in various guises; for it represents the late nineteenth century's scientific version of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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
Kriya is an ancient science,” Yogananda writes. Mahavatar Babaji rediscovered and clarified the technique after it had been lost in the Dark… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
“The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I like Daniel. He takes care of you." I blinked. "Oh my God. Did you really just say that? He takes care… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The Marxist doctrine is omnipotent because it is true. It is comprehensive and harmonious, and provides men with an integral world outlook… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When… — Alan Jacobs 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
