Human History Quotes

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

All human history moves towards one great goal

[I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.

Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

[L]et me point out that libertarians defend a tradition of liberty that is the fruit of thousands of years of human history.

How lucky we are to live in this time / the first moment in human history / when we are in fact visiting other worlds

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

When the survival strategy of a civilization is invalidated, in all of human history none have ever turned back from the brink.

That the man in question should be Donald Trump, with all his personal flaws, challenges the United States and the world as never before in human history.

For our hope in the future is cosmic, forging human history into eternity.

We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

All big things in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

In human history who hold the reigns of political power, and there are some women who were very much a team player during their husband's oppressive regime.

In fact, there are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe.

Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

5,000 years of human history should not be overthrown by the acts of a few liberal judges or by the acts of a few local elected officials.

My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task.

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

The adjective 'decent' and the noun 'government' have seldom come together in the human history!

We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Christmas is all about surrender. It's all about the surrender of the Son to obey the perfect will of the Father and enter human history.

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.