History Repeating Itself Quotes

“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns.
If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“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 what we're doing, you can say, We're remembering. That's where we'll win out in the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”
― Will Durant

“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.”
― Syd Moore

“How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
― George S. Patton

“Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.”
― Wynne McLaughlin

“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History

“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?”
― S.C. Parris, The Dark World

“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

“All of history, a great wheel, turning inexorably. Just as seasons come and go, just as the moon moves endlessly through her cycle, so does time. The same wars are fought, the same plagues descend, the same folk, good or evil, rise to power. Humanity is trapped on that wheel, doomed endlessly to repeat the mistakes we have we have already made. Unless someone comes to change it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest

“We are tempted to think that we have reached the end of history, that it can never happen again. But history is made every day, sometimes by men of evil. And all too often, history repeats itself. (Holy Father, the Pope)”
― Daniel Silva, The Fallen Angel

“The past is what's written down. It is very quiet; only people who can write make any sound at all.”
― Jill Lepore, Joe Gould's Teeth

“The Man Who Knows His History Can See Present Events Better Than Anyone Else”
― Mr Luc Jorgart, Whispers of Wisdom: Philosophical Quotes of Luc Jorgart

“The echoes of WWII remind us how easily humanity can slip into chaos when we fail to address the root causes of conflict and the vital importance of learning from history to build a better future.”
― Donald de Brier, The Delilah Enigma: An Historical Novel

“History has shown that even the mightiest of manipulators can be brought to their knees by the power of a united and resolute citizenry.”
― Rove Monteux, What is Wrong with Society Today

“To Me, One Of The Great Pillars That Can Create A Perfect Humanity Is History. Destroying History Is Never The Answer.”
― Mr Luc Jorgart, Philosophies of the Void: The Basics of Void Philosophy

“I Don’t Believe In ‘politics’, I Believe In The Nature Of Human Philosophy. Countries Always Fall And Then Establish Themselves Again… New Flag, New Name, Same Problems. Always Has, Always Will”
― Mr Luc Jorgart, Philosophies of the Void: The Basics of Void Philosophy

“Exploring our history isn’t about wallowing in shame. We cannot ever own the attitudes and actions of our ancestors. But if we fail to see the legacy of tragic, discriminatory and
inhumane events, we allow their influence to continue.”
― Suzy Levy, Mind the Inclusion Gap: How allies can bridge the divide between talking diversity and taking action

“.... if we cite other scholars without critical thinking, or without wondering why and in what context something was written, we risk perpetuating ideas that we may, in fact, not know to be correct ...”
― Christian Raffensperger, The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom

“Idézet:

"És imbolyogtam az élet hullámain:
szerelemből gyűlöletbe, gyűlöletből erőltetett szerelembe."


Эпиграф:

"И качалась я на волнах жизни:
от любви к ненависти, от ненависти к вымученной любви.”
― Angelika Regossi, MAGYARUL MINT OROSZUL: 1000 szó magyarázattal. ПО–ВЕНГЕРСКИ КАК ПО–РУССКИ: 1000 с л о в c пояснениями

“There’s more to development than money…Think of how a child develops. Learns to walk, talk. Grows up. Gets a bit smarter every day.
That’s development too. It’s time for Kinton Bay to grow up. Get smarter and acknowledge its violent beginnings.”
― Petronella McGovern, The Liars

“No matter how deep we bury the past, it always wells back up. I find it best to understand, rather than fear.”
― Samantha Shannon;

“No matter how deep we bury the past, it always wells back up. I find it best to understand, rather than fear.”
― Samantha Shannon, A Day of Fallen Night

“History is full of different people making the same mistakes over and over again, never learning from the actions of those who came before them. Time can sometimes prove to be a vicious circle in that regard. People in power attempting to tell others how they should live their lives, but only in the bounds of what they consider acceptable. Gatekeepers who decide it is up to them to decide what is morally correct or not.”
― Tj Klune, Cerulean Chronicles Series Collection Set of 2 Books. The House in the Cerulean Sea and Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune

“Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no 'patriotic German' could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day, than a farmer in the field sees the corn going. One day it is over his head.”
― Milton Meyer

“Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no 'patriotic German' could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day, than a farmer in the field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.”
― Milton Mayer

“Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted,' that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no 'patriotic German' could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day, than a farmer in the field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

“I wanted to understand the lies that people have to tell themselves when they either quietly or joyfully watch their neighbors ruined, spirited away, killed. Different versions of this horror have happened again and again in history. They're still happening in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor, wherever one group of people permits its leaders to convince them that for their own protection, for the safety of their families and the security of their country, they must get their enemies, those alien others who until now were their neighbors.”
― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

“La debolezza della storia è di essere volubile e poco affidabile, soggetta al trascorrere delle ideologie e delle mode: perché, altrimenti, cambierebbe tanto la versione dei fatti da un secolo all'altro? Il mito ha una forza lirica e una bellezza estetica di cui la storia è carente. Il mito rettifica la storia, è come se dicesse: può darsi che le cose non siano andate proprio così, ma è così che avrebbero dovuto andare, è così che vogliamo ricordarle, e una disfatta eroica è più degna di memoria che una vittoria risicata.”
― Clara Usón, La hija del Este