Human History Quotes
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Human History Quotes & Sayings
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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
— Sam Harris
The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.
— Katherine Reay
Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?
— Robin Hobb
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.
— Igor Sikorsky
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
— Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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.
— Condoleezza Rice
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
— Eldridge Cleaver
Because some things that seem unimportant now can change the course of human history and I am a student of human history. — Daniel Nayeri
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.
— David Gelernter
We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity
— Natasha Tsakos
we are here confronted with an irreducible oddity about all human societies: all are strung around figments of the human imagination.
— Patricia Crone
For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.
— David Paul Kirkpatrick
We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.
— Jason Russell
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
— Edward Gibbon
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.
— Marco Rubio
Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed.
— Margaret Thatcher
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
— Edmund Beecher Wilson
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.
— Daniel Suarez
The most important events in human history were the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
— Billy Graham
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
— Terence McKenna
There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
Neither the colourless vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor the fierce self-idolatry of nation-worship, is the goal of human history.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.
— Gerda Lerner
All good human work remembers its history.
— Wendell Berry
History paints the human heart.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
— Thabo Mbeki
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
— Friedrich Engels
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.
— Heather Brewer
Historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.
— C.V. Wedgwood
It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.
— Louie Giglio
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[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.
— Tom G. Palmer
Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
— Eamon Duffy
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
— Michael Shermer
A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.
— Richard B. Spence
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race.
— Barbara Mertz
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.
— Stephen Hawking
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
— Pope John Paul II
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
— Arthur Keith
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
— James Gleick
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
— Robert Breault
And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs?
— Rebecca Makkai
The history of human nature: How far can we get away with being complete and utter bastards, before we have to backtrack?
— Paul MacAlindin
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There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.
— Steven Magee
All God's righteous hatred of all that sin from all of human history was poured out upon Christ as He hung there on that cross.
— James MacDonald
No human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.
— Thomas C. Oden
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
— Isaac Asimov
A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else.
— Stan Beckensall
Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.
— T.A. Uner
It was the greatest, most intricate, most ingenious and most costly rescue mission in all of human history.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.
— Steven Magee
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
— Frank Herbert
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.
— Stebby Julionatan
I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things.
— Wesley Morris
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
— Charles Frankel
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
— Jared Diamond
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.
— Samuel P. Huntington
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
— Mary Douglas
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
— Garrett Hardin
History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
— Jeffrey D. Sachs
To get hold of the human condition, we need next a much broader definition of history than is conventionally used.
— Edward O. Wilson
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
— Huston Smith
Human nature in time is engraved in history.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
— Edward Gibbon
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.
— Madame De Stael
Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable.
— Bill Loguidice
Jared Diamond to describe agriculture as "the worst mistake in the history of the human race.")
— Gary Taubes
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
— Benedetto Croce
