87 Quotes About History-repeating-itself

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.

That car is a symbol of human oppression and greed. Sometimes it’s driven by a fallen nun, or a crooked priest. Perhaps even the Devil himself?

And always, as a way of drowning class resentment in a flood of slogans for national unity, there was patriotism.

You know what I hate?' she said. 'When people say that history repeats itself. That's the scariest thing I can think of.

Those who do not learn a lesson from history, for those the history repeats itself until it learns.

...the disease killed eight thousand...between its first appearance in October 1635 and its eventual disappearance in July 1637...The appalling impact of the plague had two significant consequences. One was that it created a shortage of labor and thus resulted in a rise in wages as employers competed for man-power.

History is the poisoned well, seeping into the ground-water. It’s not the unknown past we’re doomed to repeat, but the past we know. Every recorded event is a brick of potential, of precedent, thrown into the future. Eventually the idea will hit someone in the back of the head. This is the duplicity of history: an idea recorded will become an idea resurrected. Out of fertile ground, the compost of history.

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

We're our own warning.