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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
— Luigi Pirandello
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process.
— Alexander McCall Smith
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
— Ellsworth Huntington
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful.
— Ellis Peters
The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.
— Samuel Johnson
The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril
— Niall Ferguson
History of humanity is nothing but a history of loyalty!
— Sanjai Velayudhan
One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.
— Arthur C. Clarke
In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.
— Charles Martin
You can go to the end of time, the last World Cup in the history of mankind, and the All-Blacks will be favourites for it.
— Phil Kearns
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
— John F. Kennedy
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
— Louis Kronenberger
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind ...
— Claude Debussy
The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning.
— Adam Ferguson
When you travel, learn the history of the place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The history of mankind is his character.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The anti-hero has played an important role in the history of mankind, so much so that the whole ethos of what is good and bad has become blurred.
— Stephen Richards
There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.
— Frank B. Kellogg
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
— Edmond De Goncourt
The history of mankind is a history of war.
— Mike Love
I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.
— Philippe De Montebello
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
— E.A. Bucchianeri
At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.
— Herbert M. Shelton
We have come to Earth in this great season in the long history of mankind. It is a marvelous age - the best of all.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.
— Isaac Asimov
In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.
— Richard Marsden
Never in mankind's history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.
— James Rozoff
Because of the indefinite nature of the human mind, wherever it is lost in ignorance man makes himself the measure of all things.
— Giambattista Vico
I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
— Winston Churchill
to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Capitalism is the greatest poverty-fighting machine in the history of mankind, and I'm proud of the role I've played in it,
— Bruce Rauner
The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
— Madame De Stael
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
— Winston Churchill
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind ...
— Edward Gibbon
Every one's footprint is a landmark in the world history
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
— Allen Ginsberg
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
— Adrian G. Duplantier
History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
— Silvio Berlusconi
We peruse one ideal, that of bringing people together in peace, irrespective of race, religion and political convictions, for the benefit of mankind.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
— Vint Cerf
But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.
— Jostein Gaarder
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
— Nelson Mandela
The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us. — Carl Sagan
India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.
— George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston
The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.
— James St. James
Emerging from barbarism is a slow process and as man is , geologically speaking, still very young, he has his whole future before him.
— Theodore Monod
I've always viewed history as my personal treasure chest.
— Sara Sheridan
Nonviolence, applied to very large masses of mankind, is a new experiment in the history of the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
— Edward Gibbon
Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.
— Abram Gitspof
If mankind had always been logical and wise, history would not be a long chronicle of folly and crime.
— James G. Frazer
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
— Chinua Achebe
The self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
— Ray Bradbury
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
— Jacques-Yves Cousteau
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.
— Bertrand Russell
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore
History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.
— Henry Clausen
History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.
— Peter Adejimi
I am ... only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace.- Danny Rollings — James Fox
The story we write today will support the next generation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
— Dava Sobel
When a man's instincts are evil, repentance has a short lease and brief is his gratitude towards those who have done him good.
— Khuswant Singh
