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Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. — Nikolai A. Berdyaev

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. — N. T. Wright

There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. — Sam Harris

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human. — Pete Hamill

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 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. — Albert Camus

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

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. — Wade Davis

History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents — Edward Gibbon

I'm convinced that none of the important achievements in human history were accomplished before ten-thirty or eleven in the morning!"17 — Bob Ward

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

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold

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

History meant nothing, because the only continuity was human stupidity. — Steven Erikson

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

[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

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. — Erich Fromm

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

Every bet of evolution in history came with its built in bet of madness. — Sameh Elsayed

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

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 — Brian Tracy

There's an old saying: peek not through a knothole, lest ye be vexed. Was there ever a bigger knothole in human history than the internet? — Stephen King

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

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. — Dave Brat

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. — Kristen Lamb

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

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history. — Kanye West

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

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. — Dan Simmons

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

I have to say it's the most sizzling, delicious, sublime kiss ever. In the history of human beings. Possibly back to and including dinosaurs. — Jody Gehrman

A constant factor in human history is the need to protect oneself. Another factor is the urge to attack someone else. — Stan Beckensall

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 — Bob Wright

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. — H.G.Wells

Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it. — T.A. Uner

Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. — Thucydides

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing. — John Lanchester

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

Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. — Jean Piaget

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

It is revolutionary in the history of human thinking to imagine that the world is not built with solid bricks, but rather with vibration, energy. — Massimo Citro

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

Historical omission points toward a culture's subconscious beliefs that some people matter less than others. — Aurin Squire

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. — Vladimir Putin