87 Quotes About History-repeating-itself

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself

Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.

But all historians, one may say without exception, and in no half-hearted manner, but making this the beginning and end of their labour, have impressed on us that the soundest education and training for a life of active politics is the study of History, and that surest and indeed the only method of learning how to bear bravely the vicissitudes of fortune, is to recall the calamities of others.

আমি আরও দেখি একটা কবর। একজন মা কবরের মধ্যে ছেলেকে খুঁজছে। এই মা বাংলাদেশের কিংবা শ্রীলঙ্কা কিংবা গুয়াতেমালার।কোনো কিছু টেকে না। শুধু টিকে থাকে ইতিহাসের ব্যঙ্গ। মা জননী উঠে দাঁড়ায়। একমুঠো মাটি কবরে ছড়ায়। এই মা বাংলাদেশের কিংবা শ্রিলঙ্কার কিংবা গুয়াতেমালার।মাটি নিয়ে বাড়ি খোঁজে মা। তাঁর বাড়ি কোথাও নাই। ইতিহাসের কোথাও তাঁর বাড়ি নাই। শুধু আছে কবর। খুন করার জায়গা। এই জায়গাটার নাম বাংলাদেশ কিংবা শ্রীলঙ্কা কিংবা গুয়াতেমালা।

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 lost in the world being gained, reflect on the price of the machine and its systems on your life, pay attention to the natural world and its increasing destruction, resist the seductive catastrophe of industrialism.

Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.

Les contre-façons du passé prennent de faux noms et s'appellent volontiers l'avenir. Ce revenant, le passé, est sujet à falsifier son passe-port. Mettons-nous au fait du piège. Défions-nous. Le passé a un visage, la superstition, et un masque, l'hypocrisie. Dénonçons le visage et arrachons le masque.

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 happen. In the same vein, history writers watch things happen and history makers make things happen. This is why history writers are always at the mercy of history makers.

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