Human History Quotes - Page 5

• No history is mute. No matter how much they own it, break it, and lie about it, human history refuses to shut its mouth. Despite deafness and ignorance, the time that was continues to tick inside the time that is.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Lying, Ignorance, Mouths

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• So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Knowing, Long, Cynical

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• Understanding the times means understanding the course of history and civilization, as well as understanding the present situation. If we understand how God guides the development of human history, we can begin to understand the therapies needed to correct the problems of our times.

  James B. Jordan

  Mean, Civilization, Understanding

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• It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

  Robert Kennedy

  Courage, Peace, Volunteer

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “"An Honorable profession": a tribute to Robert F. Kennedy”

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• It is easier and much more satisfying to rail against the Right than to suggest that we go back to Genesis 1 and study together. Liberals can be just as intolerant as fundamentalists, and we have arrived at a moment in human history when intolerance and hope are mutually exclusive.

  Robin Meyers

  Together, Study, Moments

  Robin R. Meyers (2009). “Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• 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.

  Eben Alexander

  Glimpse, Body, Firsts

  "Proof Of Heaven: A Doctor’s Experience With The Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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• I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

  Ben Casnocha

  Dots, Maps, Bigs

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• The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Land, United States, Asia

  Interview with Marc Grossman, www.cfr.org. April 14, 2010.

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• 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.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Century, Lost

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• There is no question in my mind that we live in one of the truly bestial centuries in human history. There are plenty of signposts for the future historian, and what do they say? They say 'Auschwitz' and 'Dresden' and 'Hiroshima' and 'Vietnam' and 'Napalm.' For many years we all woke up to the daily body count on the radio. And if there were a way to kill people with the B Minor Mass, the Pentagon-Madison Avenue axis would have found it.

  Erwin Chargaff

  Death, Science, Axes

  Erwin Chargaff (1977). “Voices in the labyrinth: nature, man, and science”, Harper San Francisco

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• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

  Gary Larson

  Loss, Ecosystems, Water

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

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• The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.

  Jennifer Sky

  Cute, Yellow, Loner

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• 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.

  Don Tapscott

  Running, Age, Punctuation

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• Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Design, Should, Aspect

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• There is a case for saying that the creation of new aesthetic forms has been the most fundamentally productive of all forms of human activity. Whoever creates new artistic conventions has found methods of interchange between people about matters which were incommunicable before. The capacity to do this has been the basis of the whole of human history.

  John Zachary Young

  People, Matter, Originality

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• 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.

  William C. Kirby

  War, Believe, Inevitable

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• Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

  Mary Douglas

  Steps, Next, Arguing

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• Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion as brainwash). It is rather, among other things, a scriptorium of beleaguered witness, a record of collated information, both fragmentary and sometimes systematic, with which we may feel compelled to reckon as it somehow, across history, reckons with us, an inheritance, if you like, of difficult wisdom.

  David Dark

  People, Records, May

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Victory, Moral, Disaster

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.199, Vintage

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• Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Father, Science

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• I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  War, People, Grandfather

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• Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, World, Belief

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Population, Entering, Phases

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• We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

  Sara Seager

  Moon, Space, Generations

  "Life beyond Earth seems 'inevitable', US planetary scientist says", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

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• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Fighting, Long

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