Eighteenth Century Quotes

49 quotes by 47 authors

Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that… — Unknown Author
In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic… — Carl Sagan
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the… — Rene Dubos
In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect… — Stephen Halbrook
This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . .… — Christopher Hitchens
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
The Beautiful is everywhere; perhaps more in the arrangement of your saucepans on the white walls of your kitchen than in your eighteenth-century living room… — Fernand Leger
M. J. Putney has created true magic with this book, the kind that comes when you curl up in a comfortable armchair and let the… — Catherine Asaro
It is recorded how towards the end of the eighteenth century a Muslim visitor to England was taken to see the House of Commons at… — Margaret Thatcher
Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the… — William McKinley
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. — George Saintsbury
Ben Farmer brings a legend to life in Evangeline, evoking with grace and panache the travails of the Acadians in mid-eighteenth century America from Nova… — Keith Donohue
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together… — John Keats
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… — Walter Lippmann
You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain. — George Lakoff
So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled… — Mark Forsyth
I think I was born with a sense of instantaneous connection between the things I perceived in the world and my feelings about those things… — Wendy Lesser
Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined… — J. Christopher Herold
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. — Ralph Adams Cram
If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined… — Barbara Jordan

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