18th Century Quotes - Page 3

• In the 18th century, if women wanted to travel and they dressed as a man, people would not look twice. Your clothes said everything. Also there were masters and servants swapping clothes. You could be anything, your clothes told everything!

  Vivienne Westwood

  Hombres, Ropa, Personas

  Fuente: www.elle.com

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• The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

  Peter York

  Book, House, Important

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• En Inglaterra, la explosión demográfica puede relacionarse muy claramente con el enclosure of the commons que desarraigó a los campesinos de sus tierras. En la India ocurrió lo mismo: la población aumentó a finales del siglo XVIII, cuando los británicos tomaron el poder y se colonizaron las tierras indias. En lugar de que la tierra alimentara a los indios, empezó a alimentar al imperio británico. Así que hubo indigencia. La gente indigente que no tiene su propia tierra para alimentarse sólo puede alimentarse teniendo un mayor número, por lo tanto se multiplican. Es la respuesta racional de un pueblo desposeído.

  Vandana Shiva

  Tierra, números, personas

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• In Europe, the Enlightenment of the 18th century was seen as a battle against the desire of the Church to limit intellectual freedom, a battle against the Inquisition, a battle against religious censorship. And the victory of the Enlightenment in Europe was seen as pushing religion away from the center of power. In America, at the same time, the Enlightenment meant coming to a country where people were not going to persecute you by reason of your religion. So it meant a liberation into religion. In Europe, it was liberation out of religion.

  Salman Rushdie

  País, Religioso, América

  "The Iconoclast". Interview with Shikha Dalmia, reason.org. August 1, 2005.

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• Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

  Garry Kaspárov

  Exercise, Talking, Soldier

  Interview With Timothy Taylor, timothytaylor.ca. 2001.

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• Creo que nuestro uso moderno del inglés se ha vuelto demasiado recortado y austero. Últimamente he estado leyendo extractos de los diarios de los marinos del siglo XVIII, y hasta el más humilde de los marineros de cubierta se expresaba mejor que yo la mayoría de los días.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Creer, Lectura, Frases

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• Defino los términos "padres fundadores" y "fundadores" en sentido amplio para incluir a toda una generación o dos de estadounidenses de muchas clases sociales que, en la última mitad del siglo XVIII y principios del XIX, articularon los derechos de los colonos, aseguraron la independencia de Gran Bretaña y establecieron nuevas repúblicas constitucionales tanto a nivel nacional como estatal. Esta definición incluye a un elenco de miles de personas que desempeñaron su papel patriótico a nivel local, estatal y/o nacional. Entre ellos había ciudadanos soldados, representantes electos, polemistas y predicadores patriotas.

  Daniel L Dreisbach

  Padre, Patriótico, Dos

  Fuente: www.biblegateway.com

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• I believe that justices must recognize that our Constitution is an 18th-century document that needs to be applied in the context of the 21st century.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Believe, Justice, Needs

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Mi pueblo no podría haber sobrevivido a la esclavitud sin tener la esperanza de que mejoraría. Y hay algunas canciones de los siglos XIX y XVIII que dicen [cantan]: "By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load". Y quiero decir, tantas canciones que hablaban de esperanza y de entenderlo mejor by and by. Canciones increíbles. Así que los esclavos, sólo sabiendo que él, ella, no tenía el derecho legalmente a caminar a menos de una pulgada de distancia de donde el dueño de esclavos dictó, y sin embargo la misma persona, escribió y cantó con fervor, "Si el señor quiere a alguien, aquí estoy yo, envíame". Es asombroso.

  Maya Angelou

  Song, Mean, Slave Owners

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• La palabra "crap" es en realidad otra palabra muy, muy antigua. Fue tomada de la Inglaterra del siglo XVII por los padres peregrinos y los americanos ya hablaban de que las cosas eran una mierda en los siglos XVII y XVIII. Lo que hace Sir Thomas Crapper -completa coincidencia- no es inventar el retrete con cisterna, como mucha, mucha gente cree, sino que fue un gran promotor del mismo. Tenía un negocio de comercialización de productos ajenos y por eso su nombre aparecía en ellos. Cuando llegaron los soldados estadounidenses en la Primera Guerra Mundial, a todos les pareció divertidísimo que pusiera "cagadero" en ellos.

  Lucy Worsley

  Padre, Guerra, Creer

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• My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who devised a complex equation known as the Bayes theorem, which can be used to work out probability distributions. It had no practical application in his lifetime, but today, thanks to computers, is routinely used in the modelling of climate change, astrophysics and stock-market analysis.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Work Out, Royal

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• The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson is that if citizens are subjected to state-sponsored religious exercises, the State disavows its own duty to guard and respect that sphere of inviolable conscience and belief which is the mark of a free people.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Religious, Exercise, People

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• I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.

  Hugo Negro

  Gun, Thinking, Rights

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• About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and older metaphysical frameworks in the 17th and 18th centuries. The other 30% consists of one-off essays or researches into other intriguing contemporary topics such as visual experience, aesthetics, social justice issues, and the epistemology of moral knowledge.

  Catherine Wilson

  Issues, Justice, Research

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We are now returning to the 18th century empirical approach with the new interest in the evolutionary basis of ethics, with 'experimental' moral philosophy and moral psychology. As a result, we understand better why moral formulas are experienced as ineluctable commands, even if there is no commander and even if the notion of an inescapable obligation is just superstition. So moral philosophy has made huge progress.

  Catherine Wilson

  Philosophy, Psychology, Progress

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  America, Democracy, Revolution

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• At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

  Linda Colley

  Christian, Doctrine, Three

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• In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Bishops, Kind

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the past several hundred years, one progressive movement after another has challenged traditions of domination - from the 18th century "rights of man" movement challenging the "divinely ordained right" of kings to rule their "subjects" to today's environmental movement challenging the once hallowed "conquest of nature."

  Riane Eisler

  Strong, Kings, Past

  Fuente: www.psychologytoday.com

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• "The Constitution" has something called The Emoluments Clause. That's just a fancy, 18th century word for no foreign government payments. And Donald Trump is collecting foreign government payments and other benefits throughout his business.It is a direct violation of "The Constitution" and unless he divests, not just operations, he must divest from all business interests or he will be in violation of "The Constitution" from day one.

  Norman L. Eisen

  Government, Benefits, Fancy

  Fuente: abcnews.go.com

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• I hope that people will come and experience our play 'A Small Oak Tree Runs Red' . I don't want anybody to suffer, but I source the 18th Century philosopher David Hume in association with the experience. He asserted that when we go to a tragic play, and when the form of tragedy is well put together, then we can experience a catharsis that is soul cleansing, and an anodyne to what our life would be like without it.

  Harry Lennix

  Running, People, Tree

  Fuente: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wall, School, Years

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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• When the word 'nostalgia' was coined in the 18th century, it was used to describe a pathology - not so much a sense of lost time, but a severe homesickness.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nostalgia, Used, Lost

  "Have a heart". Interview With Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• One of the interesting things about the history of poetry in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is that people who read liked getting their information in rhyme just as much as in prose. The genre that we would think of as nonfiction often was written in verse in forms like the Georgic when people thought that one of the tasks of poetry was conveying arguments and information in a pleasant way.

  Robert Hass

  Pensar, Gente, Interesante

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• One legislator accused me of having a 19th century attitude on law and order. That is a totally false charge. I have an 18th century attitude. That is when the Founding Fathers made it clear that the safety of law abiding citizens should be one of government's primary concerns.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Attitude, Father, War

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