18th century Quote by Fiona Shaw

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Well, the first thing I had to do was to read a lot. First of all, about education... and looking at education from the…

— Michael Haneke

“sometime around the turn of the seventeenth century there began what is often called the modern period, or modernity.[1] It lasted, roughly, until sometime…

— Heath White

The 19th century was the century of empires, the 20th was the century of nation states, and the 21st is the century of cities…

— Sadiq Khan

The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century…

— Wellington Webb

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

— Sam Abell

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore…

— Benito Mussolini

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy…

— Herbert Croly

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

— Susan Sontag