Nineteenth Century Quotes

• When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

  John Boyd Orr

  Creating, Revolution, Demand

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• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Champion, President

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• The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

  Ida B. Wells

  Cutting, Lynching, Ears

  "Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.

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• It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.

  Michael Behe

  People, Principles, World

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• I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Succeed, Bears, Dignity

  "History of England" by Thomas B. Macaulay, Vol. I, (Ch. 1), 1849-1861.

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• The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

  Lech Walesa

  Fighting, Loss, Independence

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• In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

  Lukas Foss

  Art, Inspiration, Ideas

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• 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 of 1848.

  C. L. R. James

  Firsts, Revolution, Action

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• There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (1992). “The Essential Margaret Fuller”, p.34, Rutgers University Press

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• 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 being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Law, Two, Firsts

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• 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 existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.

  Christopher Dawson

  Civilization, Age, Movement

  Christopher Dawson (1961). “The Crisis of Western Education”, New York : Sheed and Ward

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• 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 twentieth century.

  John McGahern

  Ireland And The Irish, Peculiar, Century

  "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• 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 life of intellect and character

  Edward Thorndike

  Character, Lasts, Study

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.25, Routledge

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• 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 public service. They are simply pirates.

  John Pilger

  Believe, Pirate, Classic

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Century, Wells

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2009). “The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. III (1887-1891)”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC

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• The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

  Gertrude Stein

  Discovery, Literature, Logic

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.105, Random House

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• In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

  Erich Fromm

  God, Time, Men

  The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

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• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

  Margaret Fuller

  Inspirational, Positive, Education

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• Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

  Arthur Peacocke

  World, Debate, Natural

  Arthur Peacocke (2005). “The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science”, p.13, ATF Press

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• Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

  Margaret Fuller

  Women, Masculine And Feminine, Two Sides

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.78, Courier Corporation

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• In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.

  Arthur Peacocke

  Catholic, Evolution, Proposal

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• Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Advertising, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Europe, Feelings, Century

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• If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Age, Chairs

  1964 UnderstandingMedia.

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• In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

  Wilhelm Ostwald

  Firsts, Proof, Chemicals

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