If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory. — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27… — Jen Lilley Copy Share Image
“[A]ll that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of… — Ellen DuBois Copy Share Image
It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
China and India are feeding their people for the first time in human history due to free markets, and the Left knows… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The new millennium began with a great global dream. World leaders gathered at the United Nations in 2000 and adopted, among others,… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This… — Philip K. Chapman Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Now we're living in a nuclear age, and the science that was supposed to be automatically for human welfare has become a… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“I thought about evolutionary historians who argued that walking was a central part of what it meant to be human. Our two-legged… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking… — Moby Copy Share Image
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
There is no authentic inner freedom that does not, sooner or later, also affect and change human history. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise. — Gustavo Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. — Hartmut Esslinger Copy Share Image
“Godless, 'we had no war.' Until God set us to fight each other, for the rest of human history.” — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image