Quotes Tagged With :1840

Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in France....

Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased....

It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to....

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government....

Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which....

Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they....

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments....

Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic,....

The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon....

A man who should undertake to inquire into everything for himself, could devote to each thing but little....