For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Capitalism in the 19th century did not doom the worker to a life of perpetual poverty. Instead, they kept creating new and… — Richard Ebeling Copy Share Image
“Why should I worry about uncreating so much of human history? Why should I care that it will be worse than forgotten,… — Orson Scott Card 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
I heard the term "mamisma" when describing Speaker of the House [Nancy] Pelosi, how she was speaking from that place which is… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Left to themselves, humans have always managed their own affairs creatively and well. Indeed, for most of human evolution and history people… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros)… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“Teo had once claimed that human history began with a storm: the interval between lightning and thunder, between flash and rumble felt… — Max Gladstone Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg making a Ready Player One movie is going to change the course of human history as pertains to how quickly… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
“Archaeologists studying the rise of farming have reconstructed for us a stage where we made one of the most crucial decisions in… — Jared Diamond 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
Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated… — Newt Gingrich 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
Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history.… — Don Aitkin Copy Share Image
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“It was the most important moment in human history, the telling of the first lie. That's what separates us from the other… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
“We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the… — Robert James Brown Copy Share Image
So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A… — Jeff Greenfield 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
Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The biggest revolution of the past 50,000 years of human history was not the advent of the Internet, the growth of the… — Spencer Wells Copy Share Image
“Historians start with Cleopatra and the pharaohs and comb through every year in human history ever since, looking in every corner of… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Human history has become too much a matter of dogma taught by 'professionals' in ivory towers as though it's all fact. Actually,… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“We have had our failures.” Yes, Karellen, that was true: and were you the one who failed, before the dawn of human… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I will do everything in my power to ensure that our United Nations can live up to its name, and be truly… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone — its ideologies and inventions… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We needed a "psychenaut" program to be the opposite of the astronaut program in order to explore the enormous domains and dimensions… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
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