19th Century Quotes - Page 4

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  Gary Hamel

  Practice, Organization, Want

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.158, John Wiley & Sons

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• You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.

  David Hockney

  Names, Cameras, Invention

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• If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us.

  Alan Moore

  Real, Character, Culture

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• I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread and cheese: those are my four food groups.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Navy, Meat, Groups

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• In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Two, Race, Europe

  "Europe’s New Anti-Semitism" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 11, 2012.

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• There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Photographer, My Favorite

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• Well, biology today as I see it has an amiable look - quite different from the 19th-century view that the whole arrangement of nature is hostile, 'red in tooth and claw.' That came about because people misread Darwin's 'survival of the fittest.'

  Lewis Thomas

  Views, People, Survival

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• Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.

  Eva Zeisel

  Vocabulary, Curves, Design

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• I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Century, Trapped

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Believe, Eye, Pyramids

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• Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while literary fairy tales (including most of the tales that are best known today) were published primarily for adult readers until the 19th century.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Thinking, Ideas

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• The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.

  Albert Camus

  Real, Prophet, Century

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• Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED

  William Rathbone Greg

  Time, Doubt, Half

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• My general impression about people like Steve Gould and Carl Sagan and so on is that when they disappear as individuals and are no longer appearing on the stage and they are no longer writing, that their lifetime of acknowledgement by the general reading public is not very long... There were many people in the 19th century who were equally famous people who gave working man's lectures, supporters of Darwin, we as scholars know their names but the general public never heard of them.

  Richard Lewontin

  Reading, Writing, Men

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

  Kenneth Frampton

  Reform, Movement, Half

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• Specifically, the part where in the early 19th century America reconstituted the U.S. Marine Corps to battle the Islamic Barbary Pirates, though I don't think that's what Obama meant.

  Barack Obama

  Islamic, Marine, Thinking

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• During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

  Karen DeCrow

  Struggle, Rights, America

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• But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

  Jane Austen

  England, Gothic, Century

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• I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

  Tracy Chevalier

  Children, Book, Writing

  "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

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• 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

  England, Century, China

  "US will regain supremacy over next 40 years". www.abc.net.au. March 10, 2010.

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• I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Ideas, Interesting

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• I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

  Niall Ferguson

  Century, 18th Century

  "The history boy". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2008.

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• The problem in the 19th century with information was that we lived in a culture of information scarcity, and so humanity addressed that problem beginning with photography and telegraphy and the - in the 1840s. We tried to solve the problem of overcoming the limitations of space, time, and form.

  Neil Postman

  Photography, Space, Humanity

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• When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.

  Calvin Trillin

  Hands, My Family, Clean

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• 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

  Crush, Girl, Years

  "Natalie Merchant: mother superior" by Kira Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2010.

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