Best Human History Sayings
304 Human History quotes by 239 unique authors
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Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but…
— Aldo Leopold
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
— Aldo Leopold
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The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering…
— Prince Charles
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For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
— Thabo Mbeki
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A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
— J. B. Bury
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The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters,…
— Edward Abbey
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Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human…
— Charles de Gaulle
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An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but…
— George R. R. Martin
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Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was…
— Edward Bellamy
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For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.
— Amanda Palmer
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All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves we were all self-employed . . . finding our food, feeding ourselves. That’s where…
— Muhammad Yunus
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I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the…
— Ronald Reagan
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We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't…
— Mark Victor Hansen
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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.
— H.G. Wells
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In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
— Joel Garreau
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Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.
— Joel Garreau
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Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our…
— Don Aitkin
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It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
— Ronald Reagan
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Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high…
— David Rockefeller
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The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole…
— Ludwig von Mises
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The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.
— Arthur Keith
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The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless…
— David Hawkins
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For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
— Thomas Sowell
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It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live…
— Henry Louis Gates
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239 authors contributed a total of 304 Human History Quotes, led by these top contributors: