Human History Quotes - Page 8

• The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.

  Theodore Parker

  Mean, Loss, Men

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.84

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• Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.

  Theodore Parker

  Loss, Men, Intellectual

  Theodore Parker (1872). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man”, p.221

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• Now, more than any time previous in human history, we must arm ourselves with an ethical code so that each of us will be aware that he is protecting the moral merchandise absent of which life is not worth living.

  Sholem Asch

  Arms, Moral, Life Is

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• 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.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Hierarchy, Division

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• Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Renaissance, Earth, Eras

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• It is a curious paradox of human history that a doctrine that tells human beings to regard themselves as sacrificial animals has been accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for mankind.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Animal, Atheism, And Love

  Nathaniel Branden (1985). “Honoring the Self”, Bantam

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• The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Inspiration, Ignorant, Criticism

  "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 2, 1949.

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• The more I have learned about wine ... the more I have realized that it weaves in with human history from its very beginning as few, if any, other products do. Textiles, pottery, bread ... there are other objects of daily use that we can also trace back to the Stone Age. Yet wine alone is charged with sacramental meaning, with healing powers; indeed with a life of its own.

  Hugh S. Johnson

  Healing, Wine, Age

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• For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Ambition, America

  Marco Rubio (2012). “An American Son: A Memoir”, p.185, Penguin

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• 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.

  Patch Adams

  Groups, Helping, Humans

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• If there's horrible flooding in Pakistan or a horrible heat wave in Texas, we're no longer able to call it an act of God, or a natural disaster, or something like that, the way we could have through all of human history until 35 or 40 years ago.

  Bill McKibben

  Texas, Years, Pakistan

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• A lot of people are waking up to human history, but so many people have been conditioned by the government controlled media to think that it's cool not to care.

  Alex Jones

  Thinking, Government, Media

  Source: www.dailykos.com

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Government, Together, Adjectives

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

  Frank Herbert

  Misery, Force, Humans

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.89, Penguin

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• The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Children, Men, Choices

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• In all of human history no country or no people have suffered such terrible slavery, conquest and foreign oppression and no country and no people have struggled so strenuously for their emancipation than Sicily and the Sicilians.

  Karl Marx

  Country, People, Slavery

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• If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Half, Want, Firsts

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• Human history's the most funny and yet the most tragic discovery will be the discovery of the religious people that all religions are man-made! And this childish discovery will enable the pious to make an intellectual jump in upwards direction. The devout will turn into a progressive man and the history will flow faster in the progressive direction.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Men, Discovery

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• The entire sweep of human history from the dark ages into the unknown future was considerably less important at the moment than the question of a certain girl and her feelings toward him.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Girl, Dark, Feelings

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• The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.

  Carl R Trueman

  Lying, Evil, Tragedy

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

  David Paul

  Eternity, Cosmic, Humans

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• The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

  Ralph Nader

  Stories, Today, Tomorrow

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, Slavery

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• The flow of action continually produces consequences which are unintended by actors, and these unintended consequences also may form unacknowledged conditions of actions in a feedback fashion. Human history is created by intentional activities but is not an intended project; it persistently eludes efforts to bring it under conscious direction.

  Anthony Giddens

  Fashion, Effort, Flow

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• We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.

  Peter Russell

  Challenges, Stakes, Exciting

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