Century Quote by Georg Buchner Download Open image “The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.” — Georg Buchner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Century Humanity Nature of man Stride
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions; they depend… — Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora Copy Share Image
Humanity must have a speed of advance higher than the speed of advance of cosmic disasters or big global catastrophes! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Progress depends on our changing the world to fit us, not the other way around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, one of the things I should tell you is that if you look at the very long sweep of history what you see… — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“MARIE [Alone, after apause.] Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everything goes to hell anyhow, man and… — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
“That's the water calling. It's a long time since anyone was drowned.” — Georg Büchner Copy Share Image
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too… — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is… — Phil Zimmermann Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century. — Henry A. Wallace Copy Share Image