Nineteenth Quotes

157 quotes by 141 authors

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
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway. — Emma Thompson
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
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
Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure. — Thomas Szasz
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
There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate. — Gustav Holst
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The greatest measure of the nineteenth century was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America. — Thaddeus Stevens
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
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
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
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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