Famous quotes containing the words germany, nineteenth and/or liberalism:
“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Posterity—the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism—grows ever harder to conceive.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)