Human history Quotes · Page 6

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

— Anonymous

War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.

— Margaret MacMillan

“For most of human history, life was brutal and bloody. Humanity just took a big backward step toward that.”

— Bobby Adair

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

— Aldo Leopold

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

— Joel Garreau

“Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand.”

— Stebby Julionatan

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

— Meridel Le Sueur

“Vico, who looks at the whole of human history and says, “mind made all this,”

— Erich Auerbach

Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us…

— Sholem Asch

Westworld is an examination of human nature: the best parts of human nature... but also, violence, sexual violence have sadly been a…

— Lisa Joy

The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the…

— Sylvia Earle

In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country…

— Karl Marx

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

— Anonymous

[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional…

— Charles Kimball

“If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our…

— Daniel Myerson

Capitalism is the only society in human history in which neither tradition nor conscious direction supervises the total effort of the community;…

— Robert Heilbroner

Actually, if you go back to what Marx said in The Communist Manifesto over a hundred years ago, when in talking about…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The Declaration of Independence has been called, with some justice, the most revolutionary document in human history, in that it placed the…

— Alan Bock

Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate…

— Margaret Atwood

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

The one thing we know about torture is that it was never designed in the first place to get at the actual…

— Andrew Sullivan

I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling…

— Annie Parisse

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.

— Jared Diamond

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

— Elizabeth Kostova

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

— Terence McKenna

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

— Maya Angelou

The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

— Arthur Keith

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

— Kanye West

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

— Frank Herbert

There are very few events that we all would point to as moments that changed the course of human history.

— Phil Scott

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Fourth of July observes one of the most seismic shifts in human history.

— Chad Wolf

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

— John Shelby Spong

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

— Robert Kennedy

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are…

— Eben Alexander