Best Human History Thoughts
304 Human History quotes by 239 unique authors
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America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.
— Vladimir Putin
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Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
— Margaret Clarkson
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The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.
— George R. R. Martin
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The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and…
— Winston Churchill
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An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the careful…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both…
— Philip Wylie
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Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The white race is the cancer of human history.
— Susan Sontag
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Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash…
— Cass Sunstein
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Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it,…
— George William Curtis
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Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.
— Abdul Kalam
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We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years,…
— Ronald Reagan
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If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the…
— Stephen Fry
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It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.
— Robert Kennedy
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It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together.…
— Robin Meyers
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Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as…
— David Dark
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In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.
— H. L. Mencken
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Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs…
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of…
— Antonio Tabucchi
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Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more…
— Carl Sagan
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We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and…
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for…
— Gary Larson
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The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just…
— Jennifer Sky
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