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The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
— Luigi Pirandello
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
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
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
Every year a thousand kilometers of motor-roads will be opened until the greatest work in the history of mankind is completed.
— Adolf Hitler
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
— Louis Kronenberger
Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.
— Michael Steele
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
It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
In absolute terms, I am the most legally persecuted man of all times, in the whole history of mankind, worldwide.
— Silvio Berlusconi
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
— E.A. Bucchianeri
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
The history of mankind is a history of war.
— Mike Love
Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.
— Allen Ginsberg
Every one's footprint is a landmark in the world history
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.Edward Gibbon — Simon Sebag Montefiore
Religion is the worst enemy of mankind. No single war in the history of humanity has killed as many people as religion has.
— Bill Murray
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.
— John Holland Rose
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.
— Leopold Von Ranke
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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
History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
— Hendrik Willem Van Loon
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
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
The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
We are about to make motherhood a crime. No civilized government in the history of mankind has ever done this.
— Adrian G. Duplantier
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
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
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
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
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
History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.
— Henry Clausen
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
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
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 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
