History Repeats Itself Quotes

We must not let history repeat itself in Iraq. The reality is there is no military solution in Iraq. This is a sectarian war with long standing roots that were flamed when we invaded Iraq in 2003. Any lasting solution must be political and take into account respect for the entire Iraqi population.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Art, when destroyed can never be replaced, yet history repeats itself.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

History repeats itself and that's just how it goes.

History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

Silence ensures that history repeats itself.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

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

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

History repeats itself.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.

Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

History repeats itself again, I guess. The rate of innovation is so high in our industry that if you don't innovate at that speed you can be replaced pretty quickly. The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about, is now five years old.

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others' lives through observation, conversation, and by seeking advice. We can use the automatic system to find out who the happy people are, and the reflective system to evaluate how they got to be that way. Pursuing happiness need not be a lonely endeavor. In fact, throwing in our lot with others may be a very good way of coping with the disappointments of choice.

Men make their own history

I put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.

The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.

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

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.

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 repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

A revival almost always begins among the laity. The ecclesiastical leaders seldom welcome reformation. History repeats itself. The present leaders are too comfortably situated as a rule to desire innovation that might require sacrifice on their part. And God's fire only falls on sacrifice. An empty altar receives no fire!

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.

History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

It was interesting looking back at the '80s and trying to find newspaper headlines from the time - the cliché of history repeating itself.