History Quote by Stanislaw Lem

“But…history was full of the bones of good men who’d followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes,…

— Terry Pratchett

“, civilization is an ever-changing tacit agreement, culturally inherited, not chosen at birth. Civilization is the invention of man, my big friend. It is…

— Peter Jelen

“Civilization, her mother had told her since she was small, was a series of agreements about what was good for everyone, enforced by law.…

— Maile Meloy

“The history of humanity is, to a very great extent, a history of violence.”

— David Livingstone Smith

“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast…

— Christopher Dutton

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

“most of human history (chronologically speaking) has taken place in communities quite innocent of state power.”

— David Christian

“I've come to realize something that for three weeks in my life I'd begun to doubt: There are good people in the world. Good…

— C.J. Box

“What is the point of having a civilization, if we do not practice being civilized!”

— Abhijit Naskar

“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." --”

— Abba Eban

“Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve beyond its own embarrassment.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Their history wasn’t so far off the mean track, they were going through what a thousand other civilizations had gone through, and no doubt…

— Iain M. Banks