Human History Quotes - Page 12

• It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization.

  Carl Sagan

  Weed, Marijuana, Civilization

  Carl Sagan (2012). “Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence”, p.201, Ballantine Books

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• After 5,000 years of recorded human history, you wonder, what part of 2,000,000 sunrises doesn't a pessimist understand?

  Robert Breault

  Positivity, Years, Optimism

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• This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

  Jonas Salk

  Beautiful, Men, Technology

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• To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wine, Rivers, Vineyards

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• It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Skills, Roots, Racism

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• Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

  Edmund Beecher Wilson

  Science, History, Dynasty

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• While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.

  Aberjhani

  Hope, Art, War

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Ocean, Rocks

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• For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community — connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.

  Amanda Palmer

  Stars, Motivation, Inspiration

  "How the Internet Is Changing Music (Feat. Amanda Palmer on Vocals)" by Rob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2013.

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• Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the life we've led since 1945 in the Western world is very rare in human history. Our children are unlikely to enjoy anything so placid, and may well spend their adult years in an ugly and savage world unless we decide that who and what we are is worth defending.

  Mark Steyn

  Children, Blessing, Years

  Mark Steyn (2006). “America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It”, p.207, Regnery Publishing

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• This is the biggest cemetery for Jews, Poles, Roma and Sinti. It must tell us that we have to come back here again and again. We must keep the memory of the worst crime in human history alive for those who were born later.

  Horst Kohler

  Memories, Holocaust, Alive

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• In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

  David Miliband

  Decision, Ends, Made

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Ideas, Atheism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, Government

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• 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

  Change, Integrity, Heart

  M. Scott Peck (2015). “The People Of The Lie”, p.290, Random House

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• It is the Muslim's conception of himself as the khulifa of Allah on the earth that makes him the vortex of human history. Only as God's khulifa, and hence only in proper commitment to the vision of Islam, may man act responsibly in the totality of space-time.

  Ismail al-Faruqi

  Commitment, Space, Humanity

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• All human history moves towards one great goal

  James Joyce

  Soccer, Moving, Goal

  James Joyce, General Press (2016). “Ulysses”, p.35, GENERAL PRESS

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• 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.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Christmas, Father, Son

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• If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Freedom, Book, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• Humanitarianism needs no apology, even when its objects are Russians or Communists. Unless we recover that concern and feel it toward all men without exception, including those who are on the other side in every fratricidal dispute, we shall have lost the chief redeeming force in human history.

  Ralph Barton Perry

  Apology, Men, Needs

  "The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis".

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• Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

  David Stockman

  Wall, Years, Elephants

  "The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America". Book by David Stockman, 2013.

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• The steep ride up the and down the energy curve is the most abnormal thing that has ever happened in human history. Most of human history is a no-growth situation. Our culture is built on growth and that phase of human history is almost over and we are not prepared for it. Our biggest problem is not the end of our resources. That will be gradual. Our biggest problem is a cultural problem. We don't know how to cope with it.

  M. King Hubbert

  Curves, Growth, Energy

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• 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.

  Matt Mullenweg

  Technology, Opportunity, Gaps

  "Steppin' off the Edge". Podcast Interview, January 2011.

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• 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.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Evil, May, Opinion

  "The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.

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