Individual success Quote by George Orwell

“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.”

— Tony Judt

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“Who were these people with money, and what had they done that they should enjoy so much luxury, where others as good seemingly as…

— Theodore Dreiser

Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and better-paying employments…

— Richard Ebeling

“...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.”

— Mohsin Hamid

“But it remains the case that, on the level of consumption, the preeminence of the twentieth century was indisputable: nothing.”

— Michel Houellebecq

“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive; two figures…

— G.K. Chesterton

“until the late twentieth century—the scarce resource in business was financial capital. If you had it, you had the means to create more wealth,…

— Geoff Colvin

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the…

— Alfred Marshall

“And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson