Quotes about History repeating itself

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If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us a — Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. — Will Durant
We're going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us w — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! — Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence. — Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything? — James S.A. Corey
A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero. — Núria Añó
Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athe — Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history. — Jordan Maxwell, Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs
I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a gre — Criss Jami
There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. — Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned not — S.C. Parris, The Dark World
Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are. — Syd Moore
History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torm — Seth Garfield, Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988
Two categories of people can be found in the world today. There are those who make things happen and there are those who — Benjamin Suulola
But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end — Polybius, The Histories, Vol 1: Books 1-2
Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile. — Wynne McLaughlin
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 c — Criss Jami
Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the pr — Alexander McCall Smith, The Novel Habits of Happiness
The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the t — Kirkpatrick Sale