History Quote by Madalyn Murray O'Hair

The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of…

— Alister E. McGrath

“Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused misery.”

— Sonya Hartnett

The power, indeed, of every individual is small, and the consequence of his endeavours imperceptible, in a general prospect of the world. Providence has…

— Samuel Johnson

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

— Nigel Calder

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

— Akkineni Nagarjuna

Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use…

— Larry Flynt

I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I…

— Natascha McElhone

I think religion has caused so much catastrophe in the world.

— Kirk Douglas

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

— Lucretius

How many evils has religion caused! [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

— Lucretius

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…

— Neal A. Maxwell

the wealthy white western minority of the world could not hope to prosper if most of the rest of mankind were foundering in hopeless…

— Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It…

— Albert Einstein

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than…

— James Cook

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

— Leonardo DiCaprio