It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history. — Phil Scott Copy Share Image
The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history. — Chad Wolf Copy Share Image
5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
Over 10,000 years of human history, I suppose it's been proven that there is an appeal to the idea of having a… — Ron Mael 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
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how… — James B. Jordan 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 the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan Copy Share Image
The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its… — Hugh S. Johnson Copy Share Image
Nothing is more clear than that Christ cannot be explained by any humanistic system. He does not fit into any theory of… — Loraine Boettner 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
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
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation,… — Judith Hand Copy Share Image
Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking… — Moby Copy Share Image
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination. — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts. — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“Vico, who looks at the whole of human history and says, “mind made all this,” — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image