Bearable Quote by Simon Conway Morris

Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush…

— Vasily Grossman

“History has taught us that the nature of man is evil, sublimely so. Good is not perfectible, but evil is. Why should you not…

— Elizabeth Kostova

Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.

— Albert Camus

As we have come to understand the psychology of evil, we have realized that such transformations of human character are not as rare as…

— Philip Zimbardo

“The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason:…

— Tzvetan Todorov

It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

— Theodore Parker

The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game,…

— Stefan Zweig

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the powers that…

— Joel Salatin

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

— A. J. P. Taylor

“The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within…

— Henry David Thoreau

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone.

— Gerda Lerner

Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

— Dagobert D. Runes