Human History Quotes - Page 16

• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, War, Army

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• Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spring, Flower, Eye

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• The white race is the cancer of human history.

  Susan Sontag

  Cancer, Race, White

  "What's Happening in America" (1966)

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• Rumors are nearly as old as human history, but with the rise of the Internet, they have become ubiquitous. In fact we are now awash in them. False rumors are especially troublesome; they impose real damage on individuals and institutions, and they often resist correction. They can threaten careers, policies, public officials, and sometimes even democracy itself.

  Cass Sunstein

  Real, Careers, Democracy

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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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• It's horrifying and absurd to think that there are currently more slaves on earth than at any other time in human history.

  Louie Giglio

  Thinking, Earth, Slave

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• Human nature is the one constant through human history. It is always there.

  Thucydides

  Human Nature, Constant, Humans

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• Women well understood how to restrict birth through timing of sexual intercourse, herbs and abortifacients. I suspect the focus on men's control of women as the means of reproduction came later, in the last five percent or so of human history, with the idea of children as property and labor. One needed to have as many as possible, never mind about women's health or mobility or brainpower. Women's freedom was restricted in order to make sure of the paternity and ownership of children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Children, Mean, Men

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• There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.

  Karl Marx

  Party, Hands, Decay

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.368, Oxford University Press, USA

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• throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

  Nancy Etcoff

  Beauty, Names, People

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• Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Years, Class

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• [I want to build] the biggest apparel company in human history.

  Kanye West

  Want, Apparel, Company

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• The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

  Terence McKenna

  Creativity, Artist, Doctors

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• Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

  Terence McKenna

  Hands, Organization, Mind

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• The world has entered an era of the most profound and challenging change in human history.

  Stephen Covey

  Profound, Challenges, World

  "The (R)evolution of 'What and Why' Into 'Who'” by Val Jon Farris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2014.

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• When you look at the gladiator times or at any of the things in human history, people are and have always been attracted to violence to the point where they're in stadiums still to this day watching people getting stoned to death.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Looks, Violence

  "Rosario Dawson Talks TRANCE, Working with Danny Boyle, Playing a Female at the Center of a Male Dominated Story & a Nude Scene with James McAvoy". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. March 30, 2013.

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• Maxwell's Equations have had a greater impact on human history than any ten presidents.

  Carl Sagan

  Impact, President, Maxwell

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• I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.

  Tom Hanks

  Motivation, Reflection, Ideas

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

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• It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Giving Up, May, Sacred

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• There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Forever, Messages, Ends

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.207, Penguin

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