The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We… — Grace Lee Boggs 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
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
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
The six thousand years of human history form but a portion of the geologic day that is passing over us: they do… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
We have never in human history seen a run-up in credit of the kind we have just witnessed in advanced economies since… — Alan M. Taylor Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of… — Owen Arthur Copy Share Image
The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it… — Ray Kurzweil 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
Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern,… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It… — Margaret Visser Copy Share Image
When over long periods of human history I scrutinized the activity of the Jewish people, suddenly there arose up in me the… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the… — Immanuel Kant 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
Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
'2001' was written in an age which now lies beyond one of the great divides in human history; we are sundered from… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
