Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise. — Gustavo Gutiérrez 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
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
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. — John McCarthy Copy Share Image
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“By studying human history, we can realize how much of human stupidity has fallen on fertile ground. Is gravity guilty for such… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any… — A.E. Samaan Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
It's taken us a short time to change the nature of nature. In my lifetime, more change than during all preceding human… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into… — Kenneth E. Boulding 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 recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In a sense, I never got over Robert Lowell's History. A flawed, infinitely brilliant project I never tire of going back to.… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion… — George J. Mitchell 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
But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.… — Robert F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
“It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake… — Ashim Shanker 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
If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Real history was unromantic, steeped in greed and blood and abject eye-rolling stupidity. An endless parade of putative Ozymandiases marching off to… — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. — Carl Sagan 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
If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. — Scott Pelley Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
