Human History Quotes - Page 16

• The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, White

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• Playing God is actually the highest expression of human nature. The urges to improve ourselves, to master our environment, and to set our children on the best path possible have been the fundamental driving forces of all of human history. Without these urges to ‘play God’, the world as we know it wouldn’t exist today.

  Ramez Naam

  Children, Expression, Play

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• Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history. . . . We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the Moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future. . . . A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Moving

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

  Daniel Suarez

  Civilization, Survival, Strategy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Freedom (TM)”, p.39, Penguin

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• There is an old joke about socialism as the synthesis of the highest achievements of the whole human history to date: from prehistoric societies it took primitivism; from the Ancient world it took slavery; from medieval society brutal domination; from capitalism exploitation; and from socialism the name.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Names, Achievement, World

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Slavoj Žižek (2002). “Revolution at the Gates: A Selection of Writings from February to October 1917”, p.311, Verso

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• The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Country, Race, Europe

  Utne Reader, October 4, 2004.

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• The true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Orcs, Horror

  "George R.R. Martin on 'Game of Thrones' and Sexual Violence". Interview with Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. May 2, 2014.

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• God is the Lord of human history and of the personal history of every member of His redeemed family.

  Margaret Clarkson

  Personal History, Lord, Members

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• The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Important Events, Printing, Invention

  "Ha-Joon Chang: The net isn't as important as we think". Interview with William Skidelsky, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2010.

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• God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

  Dallas Willard

  Community, Creation, Aim

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

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Survival, Environmental, Tipping

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• As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Memories, Two, Different

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• These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life's meaning also require negative comparison to others?

  William J. Clinton

  People, Religion, Identity

  "My vision for peace" by Bill Clinton, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2002.

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• But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield.

  Rick Yancey

  Running, War, Humanity

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.103, Penguin

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

  Vladimir Putin

  America, Development, Cleansing

  "Putin talks NSA, Syria, Iran, drones in RT interview". Interview with Margarita Simonyan, Oksana Boyko, www.rt.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.

  David Fontana

  Struggle, Practice, Ideas

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• A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

  J. B. Bury

  History, Facts, Ends

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• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

  Edward Abbey

  Daughter, Mother, Men

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• Our dreams of bringing the whole of human history under the control of the human will are ironically refuted by the fact that no group of idealists can easily move the pattern of history toward the desired goal of peace and justice. The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Dream, Drama, Moving

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.551, Library of America

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• It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.

  Theodore Parker

  Loss, Evil, Vain

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.50

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

  Maya Angelou

  Long, Taught, Humans

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Feb 28, 2013

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• 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

  Art, Rocks, Europe

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

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• Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

  Thomas Sowell

  Teacher, Responsibility, Years

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