Throughout History Quotes

#1. Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

Barack Obama

#2. Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.

James Nachtwey

#3. The sex drive is one of the most fundamental human urges, and throughout history, there have been laws regulating what is considered acceptable sexual behavior. In the past century, the law has had trouble keeping up with changing social and moral standards.

Terry Gross

#4. The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history.

Mitchell Baker

#5. I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

Zoe Saldana

#6. The theologian and the executioner have been intimates throughout history.

Michael Wood

#7. The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. One of Britain's big problems throughout history has been that we lust after consumer goods from elsewhere, but our friends overseas have been less enthusiastic about buying things we produce.

Kate Williams

#9. Perhaps, Katrine, in a library just like this one, you will find that all the things you thought were impossible and all the things that everyone, throughout history, have thought were impossible are not really impossible at all ... they never were impossible.

Alexei Maxim Russell

#10. Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

#11. I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.

Salma Hayek

#12. Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

Gemma Ward

#13. Throughout history, people have risked their lives for love, for patriotism, for principle, and for God far more often than fear has made them run away. Upon that fact depends progress. The

Tom Clancy

#14. As a grandiose self-deception, war is o' the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the same time - as a means o' defeatin' death, but neither o' them do a blinkin' thing but sanction dyin'. Throughout history, Death's best friend has been a priest with a knife.

Tom Robbins

#15. If mankind is to have a new beginning among the stars, it will not come cheaply, for we are our own enemy and bring our demons with us as we have done throughout history.

Jay Allan

#16. Throughout history we humans have struggled to find meaning in the awesome contradiction of our human condition. Neither philosophy, nor psychology nor biology has, until now, been able to provide the truthful explanation.

Jeremy Griffith

#17. Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.

David Icke

#18. Older people may have always existed throughout history, but they were rare.

S. Jay Olshansky

#19. I do know that throughout history, all paper money has eventually come back to its true value, which is zero.

Robert Kiyosaki

#20. Throughout history no one has suffered more than God. He has suffered because his own children fell away from him. Ever since the Fall, God has been working tirelessly for the restoration of mankind. People do not know this brokenhearted aspect of God.

Sun Myung Moon

#21. Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#22. How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

Perry Marshall

#23. When we consider propaganda as the attempt to shape the thoughts and feelings of others, in ways conforming to the aims of the communicator, we find a vast array of different examples throughout history.

Randal Marlin

#24. Cynical as it may seem, easy credit has been used as a palliative throughout history by governments that are unable to address the deeper anxieties of the middle class directly.

Raghuram G. Rajan

#25. I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stories of women of colour in particular. I feel we've been present throughout history, but our voices have been neglected.

Lynn Nottage

#26. Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing - - that a great enlightenment is coming.

Dan Brown

#27. Throughout history, different cultures have produced creation myths that explain our origins as the result of cosmic forces shaping our destiny. These histories have helped us to ward off feelings of insignificance.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#28. The starting point is the recognition that throughout history, religion has been a cause of bloodshed, and it remains so today. Because religion has contributed to the world's problems, it must develop specific and practical ways to help solve those problems.

John C. Danforth

#29. God is light and in him there is no darkness" (1 John 1:5). Indeed, God's "eyes are too pure to behold evil" (Hab. 1:13). How are these verses consistent with the view that everything - including all the evil that people have experienced throughout history - is part of God's sovereign will? Some

Gregory A. Boyd

#30. It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

RuPaul

#31. Throughout history, the word "war" has meant one thing to human beings: loss of life. The word "peace" has always meant security and love within a person's soul.

A.H. Metwally

#32. Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

Dee Hock

#33. I feel like throughout history we've heard bullshit from politicians, but now we're at the perfect intersection of technology and entertainment where we can, in real time, produce something that holds people accountable. That's an exciting time to be living in.

Morgan Spurlock

#34. Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.

Kate Williams

#35. I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

Chris Kluwe

#36. Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the context of the noun, but most people, if not all, have a bit of genius in them in the context of the adjective.

Criss Jami

#37. The symbol of the lion, throughout history, throughout cultures, is one pure, radiant symbol and that is leadership, kingship

Linda Tucker

#38. The greatest threat to private wealth throughout history has always been institutionalized violence, the incarnation of which we have referred to as "the State" only over the past few centuries. This

Rahim Taghizadegan

#39. Throughout history, the characteristic feature of the nation state is its monopoly of violence.

Matt Ridley

#40. Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that many of us are looking for someone who reminds us of our parent or sibling of the opposite sex, who in turn resembles us.

Jared Diamond

#41. I'd be willing to bet that any incursion throughout history in which the invading country has proclaimed it is bringing benefits to the conquered is based on a lie.

Peter Shaffer

#42. The gene," Dr. Narcejac-Boileau said, "is associated with social dominance and strong control over other people. We have isolated it in sports leaders, CEOs, and heads of state. We believe the gene is found in all dictators throughout history.

Michael Crichton

#43. Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Mardy Grothe

#44. Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

Janet Echelman

#45. Jewelry and pins have been worn throughout history as symbols of power, sending messages. Interestingly enough, it was mostly men who wore the jewelry in various times, and obviously crowns were part of signals that were being sent throughout history by people of rank.

Madeleine Albright

#46. The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.

Kate Millett

#47. As always throughout history, she thought, there are no real victors in conquests; they are merely the planners for more conflict in the future. The

Barbara H. Martin

#48. There are many machines throughout history that were built to do something better than a human can.

Mark Zuckerberg

#49. It was the cry of grace, of agonizing, scandalous love. Those same words would be heard over and over from the mouths of martyrs and Christians throughout history. They

Shane Claiborne

#50. Not only does free trade have nothing to do with democracy, but in most cases throughout history the two have been inimical. Free trade prospered only at the expense of democracy and the freedom of the majority.

Michael Hogan

#51. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE WOMEN THAT HAVE MADE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD THROUGHOUT HISTORY, WHAT THEY'VE DONE HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN DEFINED BY FEARLESSNESS. STOP LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER - THERE'S NOBODY WHO MATTERS BACK THERE.

Anna Quindlen

#52. There was no point in lying. Despite various sources throughout history saying otherwise, no one can do magic on you just because they know your name. If they could, a big portion of the world's inhabitants would be up to their neck in curses.

Steve McHugh

#53. One can see [ ... ] that the so-called governing powers are cardboard characters that mask the true ruling factors of our culture. Of course, those who manipulate the nation are not stupid. Rulers throughout history are only as powerful as the people who support them allow them to be.

Peter Moon

#54. Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.

John F. Kennedy

#55. Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

Joe Klein

#56. [As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.

Ralph Nader

#57. Any social movement throughout history has always been carried out by only 7% of population being passionately active in that.

Paul Watson

#58. Throughout history there have been those who have created change, and others who have feared it.

T.A. Uner

#59. Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. ... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.

Oliver Stone

#60. So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.

Sun Myung Moon

#61. For dynamic energy, driving force, and discipline, the Russian Communist Party is unique the world over, perhaps even throughout history.

Louis Fischer

#62. I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#63. Because pessimism needs to counter that argument in order to be at all persuasive, a recurring theme in pessimistic theories throughout history has been that an exceptionally dangerous moment is imminent.

David Deutsch

#64. Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Margaret Mead

#65. Humans have been doin' awful things to each other throughout history. Humanity's not as great as you make it out to be. I do what needs to be done, and that's that. We're about to go to war, Earl. There ain't no humanity in war.

Michael Monroe

#66. Anytime you have anyone who thinks he or she has God in their pocket, you have the potential for disaster, ... Throughout history, the claim that God is on your side has been used to justify any action, no matter how violent or destructive.

Charles Kimball

#67. Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That's why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not to trust in the promises of God.

R.C. Sproul

#68. Great clubs have had one thing in common throughout history, regardless of era and tactics. They owned the pitch and they owned the ball. That means when you have the ball, you dictate play and when you are defending, you control the space

Arrigo Sacchi

#69. I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now.

Russell Simmons

#70. While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.

Hyde

#71. At pivotal moments throughout history, there have always been grey areas, and there likely will be in the future. Courage now lies not in the black and white, as in the past, but in the grey.

Safak Pavey

#72. Human curiosity. Such a very interesting thing. Think of what we owe to it throughout history. It is said to be usually associated with the cat. Curiosity killed the cat. But I should say really that the Greeks were the inventors of curiosity.

Agatha Christie

#73. The most common form of giantism is a condition called acromegaly, and acromegaly is caused by a benign tumor on your pituitary gland that causes an overproduction of human growth hormone. And throughout history, many of the most famous giants have all had acromegaly.

Malcolm Gladwell

#74. Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.

John Robbins

#75. God will probably allow us to ask questions about and discover some of the things we've always been curious about. Isn't it marvelous to think about how we will be able to actually meet and talk to people who lived throughout history?

David Berg

#76. I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Abbie Hoffman

#77. The nazis slaughtered millions because they dehumanized their victims ... but when it comes to dehumanizing victims the most useful and most widely used tool throughout history is, of course, religion.

David Alan Harvey

#78. Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.

Allen Klein

#79. I'm interested in the truth, but the stories tell us so much about the people throughout history as well.

Skye Warren

#80. Throughout history people have gazed at the skies in wonder. You only have to stand at the base of a church steeple to understand why.

Fennel Hudson

#81. They did what human beings looking for freedom, throughout history, have often done. They left.

Isabel Wilkerson

#82. Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.

Richelle Mead

#83. Adoration drives obedience, but throughout history people are prone to forget the faithfulness of God yesterday.

Matt Chandler

#84. All of the great mastermind thinkers throughout history have known that we become our thoughts.

Bryant McGill

#85. Our dear country, Iran, throughout history has been subject to threats.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#86. The decline of violence is due largely to the rise of the state. Throughout history, most violence resulted from local feuds between families and communities. (Even today, as the above figures indicate, local crime is a far deadlier threat than international wars.)

Yuval Noah Harari

#87. Throughout history, ambassadors have always been symbolic incarnations of the sovereignty of their nations and the dignity of their leaders.

Camille Paglia

#88. How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it's been around at least as long as humanity has.

Susannah Cahalan

#89. Throughout history, politicians have used other people's property to buy themselves power. That is the primary achievement of the welfare state.

James Bovard

#90. Democratically-oriented Jeffersonian inspiration has prevailed throughout history and certainly been more admired than capitalistic Hamiltonian-style motivations of greed and power.

Patrick Mendis

#91. As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.

Catherine Hardwicke

#92. Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.

Lee Clow

#93. How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

Christopher Buckley

#94. Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.

Barbara Goldsmith

#95. It's just that every story of woe and tragedy throughout history starts out with those exact same three words. 'There's this girl

Mia Sheridan

#96. Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

#97. Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.

Helen McCloy

#98. The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.

Jeremiah Denton

#99. Numerous times throughout history, a single person has made a tremendous impact on the world. I don't know why anyone would think that can't still happen.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#100. The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

William E. Simon