1840s · Skopia

Showing 210 quotes from the 1840s

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.8

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 9.6

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 8.7

Pamphlet · Political literature · Economic literature

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto · 1848

★ 8.2

Novella

I wear the chain I forged in life.

Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol · 1843

★ 8.0

Essay

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.2

Philosophical literature

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Soren Kierkegaard

The Concept of Anxiety · 1844

★ 7.2

Poem · Newspaper

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

1849

★ 7.2

Essay

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.1

Philosophical literature

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.

Karl Marx

Theses on Feurbach · 1845

★ 7.1

Novel

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights · 1847

★ 7.1

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!

Soren Kierkegaard

Either Or · 1843

★ 7.0

Essay

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essays: First Series (Emerson) · 1841

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

Frederick Douglass

1847

★ 7.0

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Thomas H. Palmer

1840

★ 6.9

Poem · Newspaper

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Evening Mirror · 1845

★ 6.9

Magazine

The more things change, the more they are the same.

Alphonse Karr

1849

★ 6.9

Political literature

Religious insanity is very common in the United States.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 6.4

Political literature

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 6.2

Political literature

The love of wealth is therefore to be traced, as either a principal or accessory motive, at the bottom of all that the Americans do; this gives to all their passions a sort of family likeness.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy in America · 1840

★ 6.2

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