History Quote by William Graham Sumner

All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellow-men in order that they might win…

— William Graham Sumner

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

There are men who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty; but this stern virtue is the growth of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where…

— Anna Ford

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

— Charles Spurgeon

Men have never fully used [their] powers to advance the good in life, because they have waited upon some power external to themselves and…

— John Dewey

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values.

— C. Wright Mills

The common talk of the struggle for survival has obscured the plain fact that man rose in the world primarily by cooperating, not struggling…

— Hermann Muller

Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one…

— Sigmund Freud

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such…

— Thomas Hobbes