{"quotes":[{"text":"It would be both foolish and cumbersome to continue our everyday existences in bliss without first denying to ourselves, for the sake of excusing our own repugnance, the inherent cruelty from which modern civilization was conceived...And there can be no other path by which a fiercely competitive, yet social species, as humanity, can afford its members the level of safety, prosperity and stability—such that we enjoy now— without its initial pangs of cannibalism, brutality, dominance and cruelty to forge the foundations, very much like the lava which formed the ground upon which we now stand. Lava still erupts from the core. Brutality, Dominance, and Cruelty similarly erupt from ours; and they are no less prevalent now than in early human history.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["brutality","civilization","cruelty","dominance","early-man","human-history","human-nature","lava","species-proliferation"],"id":58897,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"After forty years of working on prevention of a wide range of common and costly psychological and behavioral problems, I am convinced we have the knowledge to achieve a healthier, happier, and more prosperous society than has ever been seen in human history.","author":"Anthony Biglan","tags":["human-history","inspirational","nurture","nurturing","prevention","prosper","psychological","science","society"],"id":90670,"author_id":"Anthony+Biglan"},{"text":"As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["evil","fascination","human-history"],"id":92974,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"},{"text":"The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["answers","human-history","lessons","questions","society"],"id":103342,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.","author":"Danail Hristov","tags":["deceit","human-history","justice","self-delusion"],"id":161435,"author_id":"Danail+Hristov"},{"text":"If the entire course of evolution were compressed into a single year, the earliest bacteria would appear at the end of March, but we wouldn't see the first human ancestors until 6 a.M. On December 31st. The golden age of Greece, about 500 BCE, would occur just thirty seconds before midnight.","author":"Jerry A. Coyne","tags":["analogy","evolution","human-history","science"],"id":169071,"author_id":"Jerry+A.+Coyne"},{"text":"Women who live their lives according to the suffocating religious rules created by men represent one of the saddest tragedies of the whole human history!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["human-history","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","religious-rules","suffocating","tragedies","tragedies-of-life","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","women"],"id":175710,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.","author":"Alexander McCall Smith","tags":["alexander-mccall-smith","history","history-of-mankind","history-repeating-itself","human-history"],"id":187051,"author_id":"Alexander+McCall+Smith"},{"text":"The answers to all the questions of the society are in the lessons of human history.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["answer","answers","human-history","questions","society"],"id":208541,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"This is the context in which the story must be understood—as one incident in human history, an incident in certain ways and to certain people important, but only one incident. God is the God of human history, and He is at work continuously, mysteriously, accomplishing His eternal purposes in us, through us, for us, and in spite of us.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["god","human-history","incident","loss"],"id":215070,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}