Human history Quotes · Page 5

“There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices.”

— Steven Magee

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

— Ralph Nader

“Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.”

— Stebby Julionatan

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

— Joel Garreau

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

— Aldo Leopold

“For most of human history, life was brutal and bloody. Humanity just took a big backward step toward that.”

— Bobby Adair

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

— Jared Diamond

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of…

— Ellen DuBois

It's the oldest story in human existence. We've colonized someone or been colonized throughout human history. It's amazing how fast we comply…

— Josh Holloway

I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies…

— Richard Leakey

Capitalism has been one of the most dynamic forces in human history, transforming one society after another, and today it has become…

— Peter L. Berger

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a…

— Howard Zinn

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to…

— Patch Adams

One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate…

— Chrissie Hynde

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development…

— Erich Fromm

“The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply…

— Carl R. Trueman

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every…

— Vernor Vinge

The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the…

— Louie Giglio

For unnumbered centuries of human history the wilderness has given way. The priority of industry has become dogma. Are we as yet…

— Aldo Leopold

In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in…

— Martin Seligman

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to…

— Aberjhani

I always thought of Djibouti as a place where human history hasn't really begun yet - or perhaps it's already over. There's…

— Claire Denis

Never since the dawn of human history, as far as I can find out, did people long settled in any region give…

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and…

— Rob Bell

“Vico, who looks at the whole of human history and says, “mind made all this,”

— Erich Auerbach

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

— Thucydides

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

— Anonymous

The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.

— Chad Wolf

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history.

— Phil Scott

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

— John Shelby Spong

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

— Robert Kennedy

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

— Maya Angelou

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

— Arthur Keith

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

— Terence McKenna

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

— Elizabeth Kostova