19th Century Quotes
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Mitt Romney's energy policy is a relic of the 19th century. We need a 21st century plan. The fate of the planet is at stake.
— Bernie Sanders
The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.
— Thom Mayne
I love the 19th-century idea of the flaneur, the poet wandering through the streets.
— Tom Hodgkinson
The mid-19th century was noted for a partisan, rather than a consensus press, but this partisanship was able to turn out voters consistently.
— Harold Holzer
Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
From the 17th to the 19th century, a cult in India strangled tens of thousands of travelers as a sacrifice to the goddess Kali.
— Steven Pinker
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.
— Kate Williams
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
— Gary Shteyngart
I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
— Ken Follett
You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text,
— John F. Kerry
Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.
— Stephen Kinzer
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
— William Rathbone Greg
The 19th-century Continental porcelain plaques that are worth the most money are the pretty ones.
— Judith Miller
It was not until the late 19th century that the term innovation had a positive connotation:
— Ron Davison
I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore.
— Bruce Babbitt
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
— Robert Breault
Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
— Barbara Ehrenreich
The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
— Kate Williams
In the late 19th century, the theory that the Aborigines were an inferior race that was doomed to die out became accepted as fact.
— Richard Flanagan
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
— Claire Tomalin
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
— Karen DeCrow
Of course the 19th century remained in blissful ignorance of post-modern irony, and the dime novels were made without end.
— Clive Sinclair
The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.
— Albert Camus
If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.]
— Estelle Jussim
There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.
— Cary Fukunaga
evidence of being performed until it was popularized in Europe in the 19th century. The
— Laura Ashley Ann
We had much freer trade in the 19th century. We have much less globalization now than we did then.
— Milton Friedman
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
— Natalie Merchant
At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.
— David Lavender
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
— Claire Tomalin
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
— Susan George
One can't step into the river twice
— Ann Howard Creel
Difficult for actors to extemporise in nineteenth-century English. Except for Robert Hardy and Elizabeth Spriggs, who speak that way anyway.
— Emma Thompson
As the 19th century progressed, Europe's innovations, norms and categories came to achieve a truly universal hegemony.
— Pankaj Mishra
Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.
— Sue Monk Kidd
More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.
— John Le Carre
I don't believe, in the 21st century, in the balance of power system. This is a European idea of the 19th and 20th centuries.
— Joschka Fischer
If there was a little shine of gold on the moon, the mankind would have been to the moon even in the 19th century!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.
— Douglas Sirk
Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being.
— Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Balzac loved courtesans. They were independent women, and in the 19th century, that was a breed that was just evolving.
— Twyla Tharp
eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants
— Ann Howard Creel
The House of Representatives eliminated the filibuster way back in the 19th century, and somehow it managed to survive.
— Timothy Noah
I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
— John Banville
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
— Amory Lovins
The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.
— Hans Zimmer
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
— David Hockney
The instruments, glassware, and chemical reagents necessary for my project were the same as my 19th-century predecessors had.
— Rita Levi-Montalcini
. In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.
— Matthew Reilly
In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s.
— Heidi Hayes Jacobs
In the 19th century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the 20th century it means schizoid self-alienation.
— Erich Fromm
Far from being marginalized, as is presently the case, nineteenth-century freethought was a social movement at the core of our national life.
— Fred Whitehead
Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.
— William J. Clinton
The 19th century was a century of empires, the 20th century was a century of nation states. The 21st century will be a century of cities.
— Wellington Webb
I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business.
— Robert Reed
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.
— Paddy Ashdown
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
— Lester B. Pearson
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
— Warren Buffett
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century.
— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.
— Edith Wharton
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
— Glen Duncan
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
— Marian Wright Edelman
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.
— Marilynne Robinson
At the end of the 19th century, people were filled with thoughts of future hope, but at the end of the 20th century, it was fear, hate, and mistrust.
— Joel T. McGrath
I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.
— Bill Watterson