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Quotes About Human

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.
~ Edward Snowden
To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
~ Clifton Fadiman
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
~ Henry James Sumner Maine
Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.
~ Charles Frankel
God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.
~ Walter Brueggemann
History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it.
~ Benedetto Croce
The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.
~ Sivananda
Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth
~ Desmond Tutu
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
~ Dorothy Parker
I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.
~ Alistair Cooke
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.
~ George Schaller
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
The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.
~ Voltaire
The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
~ William H. Prescott
Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.
~ Georgia Harkness
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
~ Albert Camus
History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards some known or unknown objective.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
~ Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
~ Silvia Cartwright
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
~ Ferdinand Mount
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
~ Paul Keating
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity.
~ R. C. Sproul
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
~ Mary Douglas