#human history

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#complete #different #east #found #guess

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

— David Miliband

#end #history #human #human history #in the end

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#anything #approaching #brute #brute force #citizens

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#citizen #greatest #history #human #human history

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#history #human #human history #nonlinear #unpredictable

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.' ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#cute #fabulous #go #history #human

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#carnage #first #first world #first world war #forget

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. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#doings #evil #history #human #human history