Nineteenth Quotes

157 Nineteenth quotes by 141 unique authors

The world has produced about 1 trillion barrels of oil since the start of the industry in the nineteenth century. Currently, it is thought that… — Daniel Yergin
If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. — John Cage
With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the… — Charles Tilly
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong. — William Weld
The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest… — Richard Fortey
In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar, — Mark Kurlansky
In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of… — Robert Bringhurst
Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic… — Daryl Hall
The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of… — Theodor Adorno
By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact,… — Fatema Mernissi
Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys… — Joyce Appleby
The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self… — Ellen Key
In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme… — Luigi Russolo
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year. — Georg Brandes
Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a… — Robert S Ellwood
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first… — Ludwig Quidde
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution… — C L R James
The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today,… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. — Lukas Foss
The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce. — Alberto Moravia

Who Wrote These Nineteenth Quotes

141 authors contributed a total of 157 Nineteenth Quotes, led by these top contributors: