Human History Quotes - Page 14

• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  C. Wagner

  Three, Social Transformation, Violence

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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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• 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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• 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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• Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.

  Bill McKibben

  Average, Oil, Seductive

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• Those of us who understand human history know the role taxation has played in shaping the destiny of mankind. The matter of taxes - more specifically, the right to tax - is clearly no stranger to controversy and has frequently served as the catalyst for revolutionary change.

  Owen Arthur

  Destiny, Matter, Roles

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• Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.

  Philip Appleman

  Blood, Hands, Hymns

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• Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Years, Doctrine, Sin

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• Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.

  Kevin Bales

  Styrofoam, Input, Today

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

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• There is a divinity awaiting entry into human history at the threshold of our heart's doors.

  Wendy Wright

  Angel, Heart, Doors

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• We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.

  Jason Russell

  Study, Humans

  "Kony 2012: shock, outrage and a hint of scepticism as UK pupils react to film" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I feel a moral obligation to speak out at this key moment in human history - it is a moment for action.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Speaks Out, Keys, Moral

  "Leonardo DiCaprio Named Messenger of Peace by U.N." by John Hendrickson, www.esquire.com. September 16, 2014.

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• The social dynamics of human history, even more than that of biological evolution, illustrate the fundamental principle of ecological evolution - that everything depends on everything else. The nine elements that we have described in societal evolution of the three families of phenotypes - the phyla of things, organizations and people, the genetic bases in knowledge operating through energy and materials to produce phenotypes, and the three bonding relations of threat, integration and exchange - all interact on each other.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Organization, People, Energy

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• We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.

  Daniel Levitin

  Past, Years, Google

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• Widely dispersed knowledge concerning the important role of basic cooperative processes among living beings may lead to the acceptance of cooperation as a guiding principle both in social theory and as a basis for human behavior. Such a development when it occurs will alter the course of human history.

  Warder Clyde Allee

  Acceptance, Guiding Principles, Important

  "Cooperation among Animals with Human Implications". Book by Warder Clyde Allee, p. 213, 1951.

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• We've created more wealth in the past 30 years than the rest of human of human history combined. But half of Americans make less than $17 an hour.

  David Rolf

  Past, Years, Half

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Man is full of energy; it is up to him how to use it! You can use your energy to do harm to people or to produce art and science; or you can use it for chattering or for deceiving people! By looking at the human history, we can easily say that man is guilty of wasting his energy mostly for stupid things!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Stupid, Science

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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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• We're finally becoming aware of a process that has been unconscious since human experience began. From the start, humans have perceived a Birth Vision, and then after birth have gone unconscious, aware of only the vaguest of intuitions. At first in the early day of human history, the distance between what we intended and what we actually accomplished was very great, and then, over time, the distance has closed. Now we're the verge of remembering everything.

  James Redfield

  Distance, Intuition, Vision

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• All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

  Wade Davis

  Life Changing, Culture, Possibility

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• It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense, that links inorganic nature with life, and the stars with the earth, and matter with mind, and animals with man. Human history is a continuation of biological evolution in a different form.

  Julian Huxley

  Stars, Educational, Men

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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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• 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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