Human History Quotes - Page 14

• America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Country, Men, America

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• 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.

  Marco Rubio

  Believe, Heart, America

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• A good friend, who knows whereof he speaks, has observed of trials, ‘If it’s fair, it is not a true trial!’ That is, without the added presence of some inexplicableness and some irony and injustice, the experience may not stretch us or lift us sufficiently. The crucifixion of Christ was clearly the greatest injustice in human history, but the Savior bore up under it with majesty and indescribable valor.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Good Friend, Crucifixion Of Christ

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• I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

  Marco Rubio

  Citizens, Humans, Privileged

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of suspicionless surveillance in human history.

  Edward Snowden

  Girlfriend, Media, Looks

  "Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower answers reader questions". Q&A, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.

  Vasily Grossman

  Crush, Kindness, Struggle

  "Zbigniew Herbert, Vasily Grossman, and 'a small kernel of human kindness'" by Cynthia Haven, Stanford University blog, bookhaven.stanford.edu. August 2018.

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• One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly, and claims immortality for its finite existence at the very moment when the decay which leads to death has already begun.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Civilization, Decay, Moments

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• The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.

  David Hawkins

  Historical, Levels, Consciousness

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• The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but what takes place in our hearts.

  Arthur Keith

  Heart, Sky, Historical

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• Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

  H. G. Wells

  Essence, Ideas, Historical

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14958, Delphi Classics

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• We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history. People are saying, "I can't fill the hole with money. I can't fill it with alcohol, or drugs, or sex, so what do I need to fill it with?"

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Spiritual, Money, Sex

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• Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

  Michael Shermer

  Nonlinear, Unpredictable, Humans

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company

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• In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

  Joel Garreau

  Race, Becoming, Evolution

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.109, Broadway Books

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• Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

  Paul Ryan

  Ideas, Done, Helping

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• It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens.

  Ronald Reagan

  Running, Presidential, Tides

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.100, Humanix Books

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• Whatever the price of the Chinese Revolution, it has obviously succeeded not only in producing more efficient and dedicated administration, but also in fostering high morale and community of purpose. The social experiment in China under Chairman Mao's leadership is one of the most important and successful in human history.

  David Rockefeller

  Successful, Chinese Revolution, Community

  "From a China Traveler". www.nytimes.com. August 10, 1973.

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• 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.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Historical, Public Opinion, Roles

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

  Banksy

  Art, Graffiti, Littles

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• 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.

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Giving, Essentials

  Christopher Dawson (2008). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.159, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

  Ellen DuBois

  Words Of Wisdom, Empowerment, Causes

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• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Technological Change, Profound

  "Want to impress your friends? Tell them internet growth is sigmoidal, not exponential" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2007.

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• The 20th century gave rise to one of the greatest and most distressing paradoxes of human history: that the greatest intolerance and violence of that century were practiced by those who believed that religion caused intolerance and violence.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Violence, Paradox, Intolerance

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• True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.

  Adi Da

  Spiritual, Motivation, Numbers

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• The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.

  John Keegan

  War, Ocean, Heart

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• The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of the Earth. For the first time in human history, we can agree on the basic story of the galaxies, the stars, the planets, minerals, life forms, and human cultures. This story does not diminish the spiritual traditions of the classical or tribal periods of human history. Rather, the story provides the proper setting for the teachings of all traditions, showing the true magnitude of their central truths.

  Brian Swimme

  Spiritual, Stars, Teaching

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