Human History Quotes
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
For the first time in human history, society has the capacity, the knowledge and the resources to eradicate poverty
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.
It is a very personal thing to me, because this is my basic voice, this is where I come from, and it is one of the oldest voice styles in human history.
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. A mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human history.
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group.
Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!
So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.
After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?
It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.
As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.
It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.
Knowing how to deal with change effectively is a primary requirement for living successfully in perhaps the most exciting time in all of human history
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.
One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history.
The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
It is a stark and arresting fact that, since the middle of the 20th century, humankind has consumed more natural resources than in all previous human history
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.
The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.
God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.
Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.
The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.
We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
