Quotes about Human history

Human history in essence is the history of ideas. Votes: 3

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Votes: 2

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. Votes: 2

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. Votes: 2

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. Votes: 2

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 2

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. Votes: 2

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. Votes: 2

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. Votes: 2

Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. Votes: 2

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. Votes: 2

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. Votes: 2

I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. Votes: 2

Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way. Votes: 2

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. Votes: 2

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. Votes: 2

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. Votes: 2

Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. Votes: 2

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. Votes: 2

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. Votes: 2

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. Votes: 2

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. Votes: 2

This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. Votes: 2

For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives. Votes: 2

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place. Votes: 2

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. Votes: 2

History paints the human heart. Votes: 0

Human history is a Gaian dream. Votes: 0

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. Votes: 0

Conventional history completely ignores half the human race. Votes: 0

History is the zoology of the human race. Votes: 0

All human history moves towards one great goal Votes: 0

Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility. Votes: 0

The white race is the cancer of human history. Votes: 0

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. Votes: 0

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. Votes: 0

Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? Votes: 0

The history of empires is the history of human misery. Votes: 0

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. Votes: 0

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. Votes: 0

Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. Votes: 0

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history. Votes: 0

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. Votes: 0

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. Votes: 0

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. Votes: 0

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it. Votes: 0

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history. Votes: 0

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. Votes: 0

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. Votes: 0

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. Votes: 0

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. Votes: 0

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. Votes: 0

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history. Votes: 0

Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history. Votes: 0

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. Votes: 0

Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed. Votes: 0

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. Votes: 0

People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history. Votes: 0

The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience. Votes: 0

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. Votes: 0

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion. Votes: 0

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. Votes: 0

Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on. Votes: 0

I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history. Votes: 0

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. Votes: 0

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity. Votes: 0

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity. Votes: 0

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. Votes: 0

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. Votes: 0

History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled. Votes: 0

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. Votes: 0

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. Votes: 0

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. Votes: 0

Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. Votes: 0

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. Votes: 0

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. Votes: 0

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. Votes: 0

Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. Votes: 0

All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. Votes: 0

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. Votes: 0

Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. Votes: 0

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. Votes: 0

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Votes: 0

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. Votes: 0

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. Votes: 0

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. Votes: 0

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record. Votes: 0

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. Votes: 0

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. Votes: 0

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. Votes: 0

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. Votes: 0

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. Votes: 0

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. Votes: 0

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! Votes: 0

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. Votes: 0

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history. Votes: 0

by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. Votes: 0

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. Votes: 0

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. Votes: 0

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. Votes: 0

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. Votes: 0

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. Votes: 0

After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? Votes: 0

The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. Votes: 0

Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. Votes: 0

Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. Votes: 0

History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. Votes: 0

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors. Votes: 0

The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. Votes: 0

There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors. Votes: 0

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. Votes: 0

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. Votes: 0

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago. Votes: 0

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. Votes: 0

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. Votes: 0

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. Votes: 0

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. Votes: 0

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. Votes: 0

History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. Votes: 0

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation Votes: 0

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery Votes: 0

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. Votes: 0

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments. Votes: 0

There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can. Votes: 0

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? Votes: 0

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. Votes: 0

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization. Votes: 0

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) Votes: 0

The idea that human beings can make history, that is something quite unique to the modern West. Votes: 0

More people are reading poetry now than at any time in the history of the human race. Votes: 0

The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor. Votes: 0

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. Votes: 0

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Votes: 0

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings. Votes: 0

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history. Votes: 0

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents Votes: 0

If miracles represent prophecy, we must have more prophets in twenty first century than the entire human history. Votes: 0

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. Votes: 0

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history. Votes: 0

There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. Votes: 0

Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Votes: 0

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. Votes: 0

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history. Votes: 0

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Votes: 0

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. Votes: 0

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. Votes: 0

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. Votes: 0

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise. Votes: 0

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries. Votes: 0

In reality, American girls are among the most outspoken, ambitious, successful girls in the history of the human race. Votes: 0

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. Votes: 0

For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty Votes: 0

Religious fundamentalism, magical thinking and self-delusion, have been justifications for some of the most horrific atrocities in human history. Votes: 0

Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. Votes: 0

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? Votes: 0

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot. Votes: 0

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. Votes: 0

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. Votes: 0

God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family. Votes: 0

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love. Votes: 0

There is no time in human history when you were more perfectly represented than in the Garden of Eden... Votes: 0

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives. Votes: 0

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. Votes: 0

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth Votes: 0

There are more people living in freedom today than at any other time in the history of the human race. Votes: 0

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. Votes: 0

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Votes: 0

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. Votes: 0

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. Votes: 0

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures. Votes: 0

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time. Votes: 0

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty. Votes: 0

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. Votes: 0

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. Votes: 0

What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power! Votes: 0

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. Votes: 0

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. Votes: 0

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history. Votes: 0

The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war. Votes: 0

Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. Votes: 0

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings. Votes: 0

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that. Votes: 0

Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. Votes: 0

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart? Votes: 0

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. Votes: 0

The history of the human race is the history of ordinary people who have overcome their fears and accomplished extraordinary things. Votes: 0

For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars. Votes: 0

The answer to all questions of human society is in the lessons of human history, which are revealed in the Bible. Votes: 0

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history. Votes: 0

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. Votes: 0

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world. Votes: 0

I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric. Votes: 0

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. Votes: 0

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. Votes: 0

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature. Votes: 0

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink. Votes: 0

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind. Votes: 0

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. Votes: 0

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history. Votes: 0

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture. Votes: 0

There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer. Votes: 0

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident. Votes: 0

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. Votes: 0

Jesus was a human being, bound by history and the natural world; an extraordinary man, to be sure, but still a man. Votes: 0

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse. Votes: 0

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. Votes: 0

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history. Votes: 0

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies. Votes: 0

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it. Votes: 0

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history. Votes: 0

There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. Votes: 0

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action. Votes: 0

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future Votes: 0

Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future. Votes: 0

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things. Votes: 0

A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe. Votes: 0

Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting more. Votes: 0

Feminist art... will take the great human themes – love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself – and render them fully human. Votes: 0

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. Votes: 0

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history. Votes: 0

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds Votes: 0

America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence on behalf of the human race. Votes: 0

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself. Votes: 0

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. Votes: 0

Historical fiction is not only a respectable literary form; it is a standing reminder of the fact that history is about human beings. Votes: 0

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor. Votes: 0

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. Votes: 0

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears. Votes: 0

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me. Votes: 0

The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. Votes: 0

Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience Votes: 0

Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her. Votes: 0

It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens. Votes: 0

Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history -- and I am a student of human history. Votes: 0

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself Votes: 0

History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated. Votes: 0

Humanitarianism needs no apology. Unless we ... feel it toward all men without exception, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history. Votes: 0

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs. Votes: 0

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary. Votes: 0

It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization. Votes: 0

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith. Votes: 0

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war. Votes: 0

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action. Votes: 0

Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process. Votes: 0

In all the history of the boxing game, you'll find no human interest story to compare with the life narrative of James J. Braddock. Votes: 0

The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning. Votes: 0

After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history. Votes: 0

The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first. Votes: 0

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history. Votes: 0

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing. Votes: 0

Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history Votes: 0

It begins with skepticism. The history of human folly, and our own susceptibility to illusions and fallacies, tell us that men and women are fallible. Votes: 0

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read."(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003) Votes: 0

With grace and a keen appreciation of human nature, Nicholas Thompson has written a revealing, moving history of the Cold War through two fascinating men. Votes: 0

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process. Votes: 0

Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. Votes: 0

If every human rights atrocity is described as a Holocaust,[Adolf] Hitler's attempted obliteration of the Jewish people is diminished or de-recognised in our history. Votes: 0

Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. Votes: 0

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people. Votes: 0

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs. Votes: 0

It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human history put together. Votes: 0

We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes. Votes: 0

In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny. Votes: 0

The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society. Votes: 0

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason. Votes: 0

Everyone feels guilty before a mother who has lost her son in a war; throughout human history men have tried in vain to justify themselves. Votes: 0

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history. Votes: 0

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little. Votes: 0

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Votes: 0

No doctor has ever healed anyone of anything in the history of the world, The human immune system heals and that's the only thing that heals Votes: 0

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith. Votes: 0

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival. Votes: 0

I believe that Brother Fidel Castro is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the history of the struggle of human beings to attain their human rights. Votes: 0

I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think. Votes: 0

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials. Votes: 0

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways. Votes: 0

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way. Votes: 0

It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight. Votes: 0

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought. Votes: 0

It's liberating to live at home during the week, but on the weekend it's like, Jesus Christ, how much History Channel can one human being watch? Votes: 0

... in the history of the human mind there has never been a useful thought or a profound truth that has not found its century and admirers. Votes: 0

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour. Votes: 0

if we were forced to choose just one, there would be no way to deny that Judaism is the most important intellectual development in human history. Votes: 0

The history of human consciousness is marked by the battle between the old awareness, the ways of fear, and the new awareness, the ways of love. Votes: 0

We are entering a period of human history that may provide an answer to the question of whether it is better to be smart than stupid. Votes: 0

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God. Votes: 0

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. Votes: 0

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race. Votes: 0

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant. Votes: 0

I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that. Votes: 0

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. Votes: 0

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists. Votes: 0

It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history Votes: 0

There is always a danger that those who are less obviously and traditionally important, prominent, or powerful will be left out of the history of human experience. Votes: 0

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems. Votes: 0

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. Votes: 0

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough. Votes: 0

That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history. Votes: 0

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems. Votes: 0

Humanism is the only - I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. Votes: 0

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. Votes: 0

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul Votes: 0

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. Votes: 0

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads. Votes: 0

Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive! Votes: 0

I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork. Votes: 0

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector. Votes: 0

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe. Votes: 0

If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse. Votes: 0

The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth Votes: 0

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death. Votes: 0

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 Votes: 0

China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows that, and it gets them nervous. Votes: 0

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity. Votes: 0

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. Votes: 0

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock. Votes: 0

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin. Votes: 0

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others. Votes: 0

This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history. Votes: 0

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history. Votes: 0

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture. Votes: 0

History has been conceived--and with high justification in the records--as the human struggle for civilization against barbarism in different ages and places, from the beginning of human societies. Votes: 0

Every day is precious. You will never live THIS day again. It is ONE event in human history. Why not make it count? Time is a nonrenewable resource. Votes: 0

The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable. Votes: 0

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. Votes: 0

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history. Votes: 0

The Sermon on the Mount cannot be a merely human production. This belief enters into the very depth of my conscience. The whole history of man proves it. Votes: 0

What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history. Votes: 0

Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history." "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed. Votes: 0

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training. Votes: 0

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost. Votes: 0

Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America--we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape of the Rapture." Votes: 0

It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior. Votes: 0

That's why history is not an answer to our problem, because history complicates, enlarges every problem of human existence. Now, the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries didn't believe this. Votes: 0

The human race likes to give itself airs. One good volcano can produce more greenhouse gases in a year than the human race has in its entire history. Votes: 0

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. Votes: 0

It's possible there are no two books in publishing history more dissimilar than 'Human Traces' and 'Devil May Care.' And that was really the attraction of it. Votes: 0

The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world. Votes: 0

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Votes: 0

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad? Votes: 0

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. Votes: 0

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder. Votes: 0

Anybody who knows something about the history of the human race knows that there is no civilization which has condoned homosexual marriage widely and openly that has long survived. Votes: 0

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas. Votes: 0

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process. Votes: 0

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history. Votes: 0

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. Votes: 0

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity. Votes: 0

The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals of the harmonic series. Votes: 0

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged. Votes: 0

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history. Votes: 0

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. Votes: 0

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? Votes: 0

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands. Votes: 0

If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history. Votes: 0

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective. Votes: 0

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. Votes: 0

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration. Votes: 0

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other. Votes: 0

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank. Votes: 0

Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians know how faulty human memory can be. Votes: 0

History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. Votes: 0

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. Votes: 0

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population. Votes: 0

Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer. Votes: 0

A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care. Votes: 0

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface. Votes: 0

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness. Votes: 0

As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation. Votes: 0

These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others? Votes: 0

If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, Web pages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications. Votes: 0

There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history. Votes: 0

More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that is why we have the United Nations. Votes: 0

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake. Votes: 0

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage. Votes: 0

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow. Votes: 0

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. Votes: 0

All that we call human history--money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery--[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy. Votes: 0

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. Votes: 0

It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history. Votes: 0

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. Votes: 0

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed. Votes: 0

Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion. Votes: 0

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War. Votes: 0

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white. Votes: 0

The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution Votes: 0

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history. Votes: 0

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. Votes: 0

The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss. Votes: 0

Marriage has historically, as long as there's been human history, meant a man and a woman in a relationship for life. Once we change that definition, then where does it go from there? Votes: 0

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves. Votes: 0

If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth! Votes: 0

The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him. Votes: 0

The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons. Not to fall asleep is distinguished. Everything else is mere popcorn. Votes: 0

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands. Votes: 0

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE. Votes: 0

It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind. Votes: 0

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions. Votes: 0

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history. Votes: 0

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. Votes: 0

The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews. Votes: 0

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind. Votes: 0

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. Votes: 0

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone. Votes: 0

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human history. The sad truth continues in our present day. Votes: 0

Skepticism has become a virtue. Cynicism and demand for proof has become enlightened thought. Is it any wonder that humans now feel more depressed and defeated than they have at any point in human history? Votes: 0

Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty. Votes: 0

Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors. Votes: 0

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become established as an international system determining the economic fate of most of mankind. Votes: 0