Quotes About Humanity

In the end, human history is made up of all our decisions.

Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

Human history is a Gaian dream.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.

I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs

Most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.

It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

History is His story.

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

We may pretend we are basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise.

When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

History is a bath of blood.

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

For most of history, genocide was just something governments did and nobody blinked.