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

“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

“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

“Those who seek to ban books are never on the right side of history. Never.”
― Jon Rosenthal

“I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.”
― Mark Twain

“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

“Every history book, no matter how ostensibly objective, is basically lies filtered through bias and a certain amount of relative ignorance.”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“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

“His car....had the black-tinted windows I usually associated with south Florida or drug dealers. Or is that redundant?”
― Nancy Pickard, Bum Steer

“The Holocaust is the lowest humankind has ever sunk. There had been massacres and genocide in the past. There had never been industrial-scale human slaughterhouses before. It was the perfect storm of absolute power inciting rabble-rousing hatred combined with advanced technology and the urge to kill in the primitive recesses of the human mind. I hope that the world never descends to that level of barbarity again. I fear that history's darkest stain will be deepened and surpassed in the future.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The atavistic conundrums of history's footsteps may trespass a while, but they do not linger in the cavernous labyrinth of my mind's diptych.”
― Avijeet Das

“What, by analogy, happens to the family of the university, or the town, or the state, or the Old Dominion, or the nation itself, given what has been built into its creation?”
― Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

“City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban life. As a result, cities may look awe-inspiring but aren't particularly resilient against disasters like storm floods and drought. And the more a city suffers from the onslaughts of nature, the more contentious its political situation becomes. Then it's even harder to repair shattered dams and homes. This vicious cycle has haunted cities for as long as they've existed. Sometimes the cycle ends with urban revitalization, but often it ends in death.”
― Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

“Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized.”
― Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

“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