Quotes About History Repeating Itself

#1. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

Criss Jami

#2. It's not history repeating itself in Gaza, it's horror repeating itself

Dean Cavanagh

#3. History repeating itself, he thought. Lessons learned long ago so often needed to be learned all over again in the present. It might true here, and he might be the student who was being taught.

Terry Brooks

#4. History repeating itself is history's oldest story.

Steve Wick

#5. You would think bearing witness to something like this would make a difference, and yet this isn't so. In the newspapers I have read about history repeating itself in Cambodia. Rwanda. Sudan.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Gamora: History repeating itself?
Warlock: History doesn't repeat itself, Gamora, but sometimes it rhymes.

Dan Abnett

#7. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#8. Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?
[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]

Theodore Roosevelt

#9. Maybe if people started to listen, history would stop repeating itself.

Lily Tomlin

#10. I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937 - on my one stock investment - because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool's procedure ... buying stock in other people's businesses.

Studs Terkel

#11. History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Will Durant

#12. Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

Clarence H. Burns

#13. As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

Harper Lee

#14. Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

J. Valor

#15. Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.

Hannah Arendt

#16. History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.

S.M. Sigerson

#17. ... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#18. There is no prophecy in our day but history. But history is a trustworthy prophet. History is always repeating itself, because conditions are always repeating themselves. Out of duplicated conditions history always gets a duplicate product.

Mark Twain

#19. Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

Syd Moore

#20. ...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.

Jeffrey Goldberg

#21. History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

Mike Colter

#22. War without end.

Well, what was history without that?

And how would having the stars change anything?

James S.A. Corey

#23. So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Will Durant

#24. If history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning?

Jodi Picoult

#25. We may want to believe that previous world wars and economic depressions have awakened people from their deep sleep, but they didn't and that's why history keeps repeating itself.

Daniel Marques

#26. A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points of
its own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be a
social disease of a most destructive nature.

S.M. Sigerson

#27. If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.

Gavin Mills

#28. The problem with revolutions is that they always end right where they begin.

Matthew Catania

#29. History repeats itself and that's just how it goes,

J. Cole

#30. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#31. Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down - or up, I suppose - replacing other people in the process.

Alexander McCall Smith

#32. Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.

Umberto Eco

#33. History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Will Durant

#34. I am more and more impressed with the possibilities of history's repeating itself on many different counts. You don't get very far in Wall Street with the simple, convenient conclusion that a given level of prices is not too high.

Benjamin Graham

#35. Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.

Jordan Maxwell

#36. Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

Wynne McLaughlin

#37. History is the most patient of teachers. If Man doesn't get the lesson, it keeps repeating itself until he finally gets it.

Christian Adam Ribeiraud

#38. It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Mark Twain

#39. History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page

George Gordon Byron

#40. Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.

Criss Jami

#41. The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

T. S. Eliot

#42. You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

Jonathan R. Miller

#43. I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.

Brad Meltzer

#44. It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

#45. History always has a way of repeating itself and like in Nazi Germany 1930's ... those who have been given the divine privilege to protect humanity can never afford to turn blind to the evil in our world that destroys its children (Young or old).

Timothy Pina

#46. History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

James A. Garfield

#47. The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#48. In the 'Disruptive Broadcasting' space, TV on IP networks is now just another application in a broadband world. We have already seen the transformation of the computing and communications industry with respect to traditional telecom. Now, history is repeating itself with traditional broadcasting.

Jeff Pulver