1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.
Speech at the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1994)
“The history of human civilisation is a history of mutual borrowings.”
Source: Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man (2009), p.28
"The Business of a Novelist," review of William Rollins's The Shadow Before, 1934
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean [Episode 1]
“History is the biography of the human race.”
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Source: A Theology of Liberation - 15th Anniversary Edition, Chapter Nine, Liberation And Salvation, p. 91-92
“Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.”
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
“Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties.”
Source: Understanding International Conflicts: An Introduction to Theory and History (6th ed., 2006), Chapter 2, Origins of the Great Twentieth Century Conflicts, p. 51.
