History Repeats Quotes

I think history is just so cyclical.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

History privileges no right side, and the arc [of history] can bend so that it loops back upon us.

Remember that history always repeats itself. Every great bubble in history has broken. There are no exceptions.

Everything comes in circles. [...] The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again.

Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period.

I am gay. I am a Jew. My mother lost over a dozen of her family to Hitler's anti-Semitism. Every time in Russia (and it is constantly) a gay teenager is forced into suicide, a lesbian 'correctively' raped, gay men and women beaten to death by neo-Nazi thugs while the Russian police stand idly by, the world is diminished and I for one, weep anew at seeing history repeat itself.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

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

If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: 'Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.'

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Santayana's aphorism must be reversed: too often it is those who can remember the past who are condemned to repeat it.

The State Department has promised they will never have another temporary mission facility like the one in Benghazi that is so lightly protected. But at the same time, history tends to repeat itself here, and so it might not repeat itself in exactly the same way as Benghazi.

History goes in cycles.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

The past has to be remembered, so that it's never repeated.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

The reason that history so often repeats is not only human nature, but also human ignorance.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

History is not ended. It will sooner or later take up the threads apparently broken off forever and knit them together in a new pattern.

History does not so much repeat as echo, I suppose.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.