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
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history. — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history.” — Michael Pryor Copy Share Image
“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.” — Richard B. Spence Copy Share Image
Data will always bear the marks of its history. That is human history held in those data sets. — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
One of the questions that always puzzled human history is, what are we, and everything around us, made of. — Ashoke Sen Copy Share Image
But the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. And America came along as the first country to end it… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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
Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, we created wealth through vertically integrated corporations. Now, we create wealth through networks. We are at a turning… — Don Tapscott Copy Share Image
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of… — Sam Graves Copy Share Image
There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms… — John Zachary Young Copy Share Image
Here is Christianity. Whence came it? It is a force in the world, a prodigious force. It has revolutionized society. It has… — Herrick Johnson Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This… — Philip K. Chapman Copy Share Image
For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers… — Margaret Mead 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
The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
. . . the example given by the Nazi regime as to the ability of a modern state to destroy human lives… — Omer Bartov Copy Share Image
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth.… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white. — Anastasia Griffith 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
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
