#history

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#bad people #capable #commit #evolutionary #genocide

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. ↗

— James Lovelock

#history #improved #individual #intelligence #little

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#current #deer #employees #graduates #history

However, we all share the firm belief in the triumph of humanist and progressive values that mankind has achieved during its long history of struggle and creativeness. ↗

— Tran Duc Luong

#belief #creativeness #during #firm #history

I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#another #books #doing #fabricated #going

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#ancient #arrived #england #family #history

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts. ↗

— Eddie Izzard

#channel #discovery #facts #generally #good

I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. ↗

— LL Cool J

#done #giving #giving up #history #i

Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#history #philosophy #tested #way #which

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#causing #civilization #death #extinction #greatest