Best Human History Wisdom
304 Human History quotes by 239 unique authors
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We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially…
— Don Tapscott
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Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to…
— Margaret Visser
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We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without…
— David Cronenberg
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I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly…
— Paul Keating
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Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
— Mary Douglas
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Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent…
— William C. Kirby
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I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as…
— Eben Alexander
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I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
— Ben Casnocha
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away…
— Ahmet Davutoglu
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Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more…
— Sylvia Earle
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There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts…
— Erwin Chargaff
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[M]ore wars have been waged, more people killed, and more evil perpetrated in the name of religion than by any other institutional force in human…
— Charles Kimball
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Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.
— Hartmut Esslinger
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There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity.…
— John Zachary Young
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So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
— Michael A. Ledeen
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'Human history, ' H.G. Wells once wrote, 'becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' You and I cannot be indifferent to the…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Throughout human history, our greatest leaders and thinkers have used the power of words to transform our emotions, to enlist us in their causes, and…
— Tony Robbins
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Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No…
— Henry Adams
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The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in…
— Noam Chomsky
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Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,…
— Karl Marx
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it…
— Paul Davies
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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of…
— Jane Goodall
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