Adam Curtis Quotes

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

History never repeats itself in the same way.

History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

You can't plan for the future, because some guy's going to land in a spaceship with three heads and a big beak and take over everything.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

Let your plans be dark and as impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

History is totally unpredictable.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

History proceeds in zig zags through crooked paths.

There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.

[Military] events are proof that success is not due simply to general causes. Particular factors can often be decisive—details known only to those who were on the spot. There can also be moral factors which never come to light; while issues can be decided by chances and incidents so minute as to figure in histories simply as anecdotes

History repeats itself because no one listens the first time.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

History is the unfolding of miscalculations

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or happily on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history.