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“I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.”

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Book:The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

Source: The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

“I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole human species consisted but of about a hundred and fifty people, called and dignified (commonly very undeservedly too) by the titles of Emperors, Kings, Popes, Generals, and Ministers.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”

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Book:Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

Source: Common Sense Applied to Religion: Or, The Bible and the People

“There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.”

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Book:A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Source: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“History is the self-consciousness of humanity.”

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Author:Johann Gustav Droysen

“I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.”

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Author:Nadezhda Mandelstam

“Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.”

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Author:Javier Perez de Cuellar

“Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.”

“The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.”

“The ecological crisis is doing what no other crisis in history has ever done - challenging us to a realization of a new humanity.”

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Book:Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

Source: Myth, Consciousness, and Psychic Research

“I believe in art that is connected to real human feeling, that extends itself beyond the limits of the art world to embrace all people who are striving for alternatives in an increasingly dehumanized world. I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.”

“The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.”

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Book:The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

Source: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire:

“History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.”

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Book:Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church

Source: Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st Century: The Classic That Woke Up the Church