Nineteenth Century

Famous quotes containing the words nineteenth century, nineteenth and/or century:

“The nineteenth century planted the words which the twentieth ripened into the atrocities of Stalin and Hitler. There is hardly an atrocity committed in the twentieth century that was not foreshadowed or even advocated by some noble man of words in the nineteenth.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“The taste for freedom, the fashion and cult of happiness of the majority, that the nineteenth century is infatuated with was only a heresy in his eyes that would pass like others.”
—Stendhal [Marie Henri Beyle] (1783–1842)

“Those who give way to great anger are like the dead:
Those who are free from anger are free from death.”
—Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)