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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

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind. — Bernard Lewis

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind. — Thomas Paine

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

Sorry has got to be the most over-used cliched get-out clause in the history of mankind. Tossed out flippantly without any real meaning or substance. — Siobhan Davis

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

Civilizatons rise and fall. History has taught us that this is the way of things — Kirsten Beyer

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

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau

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

The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power. — Albert Camus

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

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind. — Ernest Klein

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

The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded. — Carl Jung

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

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? — David Hume

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

I was weeping for all of history's incredible atrocities against fellowmen, which seems to be mankind's greatest flaw ... — Alex Haley

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history. — Terry Pratchett

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

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. — Franz Kafka

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

If you don't know history,
you don't know anything.
Edward Johnston — Richard Puz

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

If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind. — Harri Holkeri

Sleep was the greatest invention in the history of mankind. When I was sleeping, I wasn't feeling guilty, or miserable, or sad. — Jenna Black

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

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind. — Adam Weishaupt

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

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. — Edmund Burke

History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends — Leo Tolstoy

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

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing - - that a great enlightenment is coming. — Dan Brown

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 thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. — Ben Stein

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

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world. — Auliq Ice

The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind! — Nelson Mandela

There has not been a beautiful death in the history of mankind. — Dave Eggers

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

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind — Fred Bear

He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind.
He will come soon to our world just like a thief in the night. — Toba Beta

I am ... only a small part of history and the legacy of mankind's fall from grace.
- Danny Rollings — James Fox

Since Eve negotiated Adam, I am the most disadvantaged negotiator in history of mankind. I have no army, no navy, no air force, no economy. — Saeb Erekat

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma. — Ruud Gullit

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

one way or another change the world don't let it change you . — Nick Young

It had to be the greatest irony in the history of mankind, he thought. The last Christian in the entire universe was a machine. — David Weber

An optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise. — Milan Kundera

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind. — John Quincy Adams

For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen. — Procopius