Famous quotes containing the words germany, nineteenth, century and/or liberalism:
“It is the emotions to which one objects in Germany most of all.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist’s couch.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“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)