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Human history in essence is the history of ideas. -- H. G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. -- H. G. Wells
The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history. -- Ha-Joon Chang
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. -- Clifton Fadiman
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is. -- Maya Angelou
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings. -- Salman Rushdie
Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. -- Stephen Hawking
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. -- Kofi Annan
I believe that we must maintain pride in the knowledge that the actions we take, based on our own decisions and choices as individuals, link directly to the magnificent challenge of transforming human history. -- Daisaku Ikeda
Indeed, the night sky is the part of our environment that's been common to all cultures throughout human history. All have gazed up at the 'vault of heaven' and interpreted it in their own way. -- Martin Rees
War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. -- Jane Goodall
Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable. -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years. -- Ken Follett
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. -- Jared Diamond
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. -- M. Scott Peck
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. -- Ayn Rand
We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. -- Kevin Rudd
There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well. -- Jeff Greenfield
This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country. -- Marco Rubio
For most of human history, the main goal of states has been to conquer land and to achieve glory for their rulers, usually at others' expense. Then in recent decades it was all about GDP. It's only in very recent history that rulers have been willing to commit themselves to helping their citizens live happier lives. -- Geoff Mulgan
I guess the reason that I'm a horror fan is that I think it gives people the opportunity to enjoy the feeling of being scared in a safe environment. I think that's why, for all of human history, we've been telling each other scary stories: because it exorcises something that we need to exorcise in a safe place. -- Annie Parisse
Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum. -- Ban Ki-moon
History paints the human heart. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Human history is a Gaian dream. -- Terence McKenna
Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. -- Michael Shermer
Conventional history completely ignores half the human race. -- Barbara Mertz
History is the zoology of the human race. -- Franz Grillparzer
All human history moves towards one great goal -- James Joyce
Human history has no unique pattern of intelligibility. -- Mark Elvin
The white race is the cancer of human history. -- Susan Sontag
Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas. -- H. G. Wells
Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. -- Joseph Conrad
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? -- Will Durant
The history of empires is the history of human misery. -- Edward Gibbon
History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. -- Jules Romains
History is the discovering of the principles of human nature. -- David Hume
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism. -- William James
[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history. -- Kanye West
All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature. -- Karl Marx
The history of literature is the history of the human mind. -- William H. Prescott
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness. -- A. J. P. Taylor
We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it. -- Jason Russell
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history. -- Pope John Paul II
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history. -- Vladimir Putin
Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. -- Mason Cooley
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history. -- Joel Garreau
In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions. -- David Miliband
Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history. -- John Green
Every soul that existed on earth is part of earth human history. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history. -- Ben Casnocha
Never in the history of human credit has so much been owed. -- Margaret Thatcher
What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history. -- Avery Brooks
People, human beings with all their creative diversity, are the makers of history. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience. -- Joseph Conrad
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. -- Julio Cortazar
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion. -- Terence McKenna
History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness. -- Will Durant
Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on. -- Garrett Hardin
I believe that the Holocaust is the most significant event in human history. -- James Comey
Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there. -- Thucydides
For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity. -- David Paul
For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity. -- David Paul
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes. -- Meridel Le Sueur
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history. -- Raymond Williams
History is a realm in which human freedom and natural necessity are curiously intermingled. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history. -- Georgia Harkness
The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race. -- Pierre Bayle
Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents. -- Carl Sagan
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. -- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
Never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people. -- Scott Pelley
All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity. -- Philip Pullman
All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. -- N. T. Wright
Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. -- Nikolai A. Berdyaev
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. -- Friedrich Engels
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. -- Robert Kennedy
All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict. -- Scott Westerfeld
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history. -- Gary North
In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn't have the greatest track record. -- Gavin Extence
Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from. -- Hartmut Esslinger
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end. -- J. B. Bury
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. -- Jared Diamond
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors. -- Voltaire
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history. -- Martin Cruz Smith
The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history. -- Walter Brueggemann
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive. -- Gail Sheehy
If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving. -- James Redfield
History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties. -- Edmund Beecher Wilson
There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable. -- Sam Harris
The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance. -- Glenn Beck
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand? -- Robert Breault
The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. -- George R. R. Martin
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. -- John Oliver Killens
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes. -- Spencer Wells
History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood. -- Eldridge Cleaver
There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors. -- Wendy Wright
The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history. -- Stephen Covey
There is the history of opinions which is hardly anything but a collection of human errors. -- Voltaire
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow. -- Ralph Nader
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. -- Aldo Leopold
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago. -- Heather Brewer
According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress. -- Swami Vivekananda
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. -- George W. Bush
If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over. -- Isaac Asimov
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
History is a compass that you locate yourself on the map of human geography, politically, culturally, financially. -- John Henrik Clarke
History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation -- William J. Clinton

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