Nineteenth Quotes
157 quotes by 141 authors
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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, the (Rothschild) brothers conducted important transactions on behalf of the governments of England, France, Prussia, Austria, Belgium,…
— G. Edward Griffin
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Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
— Emma Thompson
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Decades from now, people will look back and wonder how societies could have acquiesced in a sex slave trade in the twenty-first century that is...…
— Sheryl WuDunn
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I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those…
— Edward Bellamy
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Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.
— Thomas Szasz
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It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual…
— Bruce McCall
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There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.
— Gustav Holst
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Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of…
— John Pilger
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It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the…
— Ilya Ehrenburg
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total…
— Edward Thorndike
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the…
— John McGahern
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The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role…
— Milton Friedman
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It is a sobering fact that the prominence of central banks in this century has coincided with a general tendency towards more inflation, not less.…
— Paul Volcker
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Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its…
— Christopher Dawson
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Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American…
— Unknown Author
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The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America.
— Thaddeus Stevens
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You have as much computing power in your iPhone as was available at the time of the Apollo missions. But what is it being used…
— Peter Thiel
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Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world, Prince Clemens Metternich.…
— Robert D. Kaplan
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The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by…
— Carroll Quigley
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When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems…
— Thomas Piketty
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