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
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.” — David Christian Copy Share Image
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I ... believe the study of human history remains important and should not be banned. We should ensure that any archaeological studies… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to… — Patch Adams Copy Share Image
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate… — Chrissie Hynde 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
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
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
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course,… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on… — Sylvia Earle 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 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
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Homo Defessus – Never before in human history has so many people considered their everyday tiredness (because they are so busy and… — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
“Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or "Asian-American"—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing, "American" is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
All of human history is about the going from sudden fat years to the sudden lean years. We've always had good times… — Raj Patel Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“What we see in these passages is God meeting people, tribes, and cultures right where they are and drawing and inviting and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history,… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
“Boy, there are people who conquered half the world, slaughtered whole populations, wiped cultures off the face of the planet, and you… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or… — Abdul Kalam Copy Share Image
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
Human history began with an act of disobedience and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“According to Carl Sagan: "Maxwell's equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.” — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
