“Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's… — Jennifer Sky Copy Share Image
There are very good evolutionary reasons for having religion. From early human history we have evolved a need to see God. We… — Jonathan Trigell Copy Share Image
throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty. — Nancy Etcoff Copy Share Image
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as… — Warder Clyde Allee Copy Share Image
The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the… — Alan Bock Copy Share Image
Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to.… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And for what portion of human history had people even had desk jobs? Maybe the last four hundred years, out of four… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all… — Ralph Barton Perry Copy Share Image
Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels... If we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth, clean secure energy… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion… — George J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
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