Human history Quotes · Page 6

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

— Frank Herbert

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

— Kanye West

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

— Steve Almond

The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

— Julio Cortazar

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

— Alistair Begg

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this…

— Paul Keating

We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible;…

— Peter Russell

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on…

— Alan Watts

“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to…

— C.S. Lewis

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human…

— Scott Pelley

You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because…

— Tom Hiddleston

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27…

— Jen Lilley

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget…

— Antonio Tabucchi

It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human…

— Ismail al-Faruqi

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to…

— Henry Adams

We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a…

— James Redfield

In 5,000 years of recorded human history... neither in the east or in the west... has any society ever defined marriage as…

— Michele Bachmann

We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,…

— Vernor Vinge

The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said…

— Barack Obama

Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

— Pope John Paul II

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

— Wendy Wright

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

“more evil has been carried out in the name of religion than any other force in human history.”

— Daniel Silva

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

— Adam Grant

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

— Theodore Parker

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

— Rollo May

The peace movement here is the biggest thing in human history.

— Tony Benn

“Everything which has been done so far in human history has been able to be done because all were possible!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

— Joel Garreau

In the past few decades, Earth's natural systems have endured more pressure than in all preceding human history.

— Sylvia Earle

“I am convinced that human history has not yet begun, that we find ourselves in the last period of the prehistoric.”

— Bartolomeo Vanzetti

He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.

— Gary North

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

— Ha-Joon Chang

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer…

— Dallas Willard