Top History Repeating Itself Quotes

Nowadays, a simple faulty brake light traffic stop, can get a black person killed. It's better to fix the broken light bulb, then having to face and cooperate with a senseless police officer.

The rate spread of EBOLA VIRUS in West Africa, is big tragedy. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can he...

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...

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

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 considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as re...

A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago...

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

Human history seems to me to be one long story of people sweeping down—or up, I suppose—replacing other people in the process.

Two categories of people can be found in the world today. There are those who make things happen and there are those who watch things happen. A spectator watch things happen while a player make things...

The concerns and methods vary, but there is to it all, at bottom, a message that is unmistakably Luddistic: beware the technological juggernaut, reckon the terrible costs, understand the worlds being...

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

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 t...

Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.

War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?

You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.

If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.

Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it.

Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.

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 it...

I could tell you tales of priestly behavior that would make you shudder.