FAMOUS QUOTES OF HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

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History Repeating Itself Quotes

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Chuck Palahniuk
“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 itself.
What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish.
There is no free will.
There are no variables.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
tags: chaos, history, history-repeating-itself, patterns 841 likes Like
Ray Bradbury
“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 the long run. And someday we'll remember so much that we'll build the biggest goddamn steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in it and cover it up.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
tags: aftermath, books, burial, generations, grave, history, history-repeating-itself, lonely, remember, war, winning 270 likes Like
Will Durant
“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”
― Will Durant
tags: civilization, commanding-nature, eternal-recurrence, history, history-repeating-itself, science 44 likes Like
“Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.”
― Syd Moore
tags: history, history-repeating-itself 34 likes Like
Ray Bradbury
“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 much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
tags: atomic, bombs, books, cave, classism, forgotten, fun, hate, history, history-repeating-itself, ignorance, mistakes, poor, rich, starving, uncaring, war 27 likes Like
George S. Patton Jr.
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
― George S. Patton Jr.
tags: history, history-repeating-itself 15 likes Like
Wynne McLaughlin
“Maybe history wouldn't have to repeat itself if we listened once in awhile.”
― Wynne McLaughlin
tags: donald-trump, history, history-repeating-itself, twitter, twitter-quotes 14 likes Like
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
“. . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past
tags: history-repeating-itself 12 likes Like
S.C. Parris
“I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Mankind has learned nothing from their forefathers. Their ancestors. It is true what they say: history does repeat itself, Delacroix, and those after history are left to make it, but how can they,” he removed his hand from the globe, waving it thoughtfully through the air, “when it has already been made?”
― S.C. Parris, The Dark World
tags: damion-nicodemeus, dialogue, history, history-repeating-itself, inspirational, the-dark-world, the-dark-world-series, vampires 10 likes Like
Theodore Roosevelt
“Is it only in the army in the Philippines that Americans sometimes commit deeds that cause all other Americans to regret?

[Theodore Roosevelt 1901 relating reports of water torture in the Philippines to lynching in the south]”
― Theodore Roosevelt
tags: history-repeating-itself, torture, us-presidents 3 likes Like
Hannah Arendt
“Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
tags: history-repeating-itself, totalitarianism 3 likes Like
John le Carré
“Tomorrow was created yesterday.......And by the day before yesterday, too. TO IGNORE HISTORY IS TO IGNORE THE WOLF AT THE DOOR.”
― John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man
tags: history-repeating-itself 3 likes Like
Mohsin Hamid
“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 as slaves. While this layer of nativeness was not vast in proportion of the rest, it had vast importance, for society had been shaped in reaction to it. An unspeakable violence had occurred in relation to it, and yet it endured, fertile, a stratum of soil that perhaps made possible all future transplanted soils.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
tags: ancestors, history-repeating-itself, immigrants, immigration, natives, slavery, slaves, u-s-history, us-history 3 likes Like
“War without end.

Well, what was history without that?

And how would having the stars change anything?”
― James S.A. Corey
tags: history-repeating-itself, war 3 likes Like
“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.”
― Polybius, The Histories, Vol 1: Books 1-2
tags: history, history-politics, history-repeating-itself 2 likes Like
Jordan Maxwell
“Ignorance and its denial will, sad to say, lead us down the same road as it did in all past history.”
― Jordan Maxwell, Symbols, Sex, and the Stars in Popular Beliefs
tags: change, history-repeating-itself, pattern-recognition, preface, the-world-condition 2 likes Like
“One thing people wonder is why the Jews did not defend themselves, why we were like lambs led to the slaughter. In truth, many Jews fought back bravely. But the Holocaust was so well planned that we were overwhelmed. It started with little acts of racism and discrimination and eventually led to the murder of millions of innocents. We must never think the Holocaust cannot happen again.”
― Jack Mandelbaum
tags: genocide, history-repeating-itself, holocaust, self-defense 2 likes Like
Barbara W. Tuchman
“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.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, Practicing History: Selected Essays
tags: history-of-mankind, history-repeating-itself, politics 2 likes Like
“A autoridade policial, como seria de se esperar, apresentou números sóbrios e precisos, na tentativa de reduzir uma autêntica rebelião social à caricatura de uma baderna urbana: fútil, atabalhoada, inconsequente. [...] A matança coletiva dirige-se, via de regra, contra um objeto unificado por algum padrão abstrato que retira a humanidade das vítimas: uma seita, uma comunidade peculiar, uma facção política, uma cultura, uma etnia. Personificando nesse grupo assim circunscrito todo o mal e toda a ameaça à ordem das coisas, os executores se representam a si mesmos como herois redentores, cuja energia implacável esconjura a ameaça que pesa sobre o mundo”
― Nicolau Sevcenko, A Revolta da Vacina
tags: history-repeating-itself 1 likes Like
“In 1969 the Khmer Rouge numbered only about 4,000. By 1975 their numbers were enough to defeat the government forces. Their victory was greatly helped by the American attack on Cambodia, which was carried out as an extension of the Vietnam War. In 1970 a military coup led by Lon Nol, possibly with American support, overthrew the government of Prince Sihanouk, and American and South Vietnamese troops entered Cambodia.

One estimate is that 600,000 people, nearly 10 per cent of the Cambodian population, were killed in this extension of the war. Another estimate puts the deaths from the American bombing at 1000,000 peasants. From 1972 to 1973, the quantity of bombs dropped on Cambodia was well over three times that dropped on Japan in the Second World War.

The decision to bomb was taken by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and was originally justified on the grounds that North Vietnamese bases had been set up in Cambodia. The intention (according to a later defence by Kissinger’s aide, Peter W. Rodman) was to target only places with few Cambodians: ‘From the Joint Chiefs’ memorandum of April 9, 1969, the White House selected as targets only six base areas minimally populated by civilians. The target areas were given the codenames BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, SUPPER, SNACK, and DESSERT; the overall programme was given the name MENU.’ Rodman makes the point that SUPPER, for instance, had troop concentrations, anti-aircraft, artillery, rocket and mortar positions, together with other military targets.

Even if relatively few Cambodians were killed by the unpleasantly names items on the MENU, each of them was a person leading a life in a country not at war with the United States. And, as the bombing continued, these relative restraints were loosened.

To these political decisions, physical and psychological distance made their familiar contribution. Roger Morris, a member of Kissinger’s staff, later described the deadened human responses:

Though they spoke of terrible human suffering reality was sealed off by their trite, lifeless vernacular: 'capabilities', 'objectives', 'our chips', 'giveaway'. It was a matter, too, of culture and style. They spoke with the cool, deliberate detachment of men who believe the banishment of feeling renders them wise and, more important, credible to other men… They neither understood the foreign policy they were dealing with, nor were deeply moved by the bloodshed and suffering they administered to their stereo-types.

On the ground the stereotypes were replaced by people. In the villages hit by bombs and napalm, peasants were wounded or killed, often being burnt to death. Those who left alive took refuge in the forests. One Western ob-server commented, ‘it is difficult to imagine the intensity of their hatred to-wards those who are destroying their villages and property’. A raid killed twenty people in the village of Chalong. Afterwards seventy people from Chalong joined the Khmer Rouge.

Prince Sihanouk said that Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger created the Khmer Rouge by expanding the war into Cambodia.”
― Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century
tags: bombing, cambodia, extremism, henry-kissinger, history-repeating-itself, khmer-rouge, massacres, morality, nixon-administration, richard-nixon 1 likes Like
Gavin Mills
“If there were ever such a thing as a unique opinion, history would probably be less inclined to repeat itself.”
― Gavin Mills
tags: history-repeating-itself, perspective 0 likes Like
“...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence.”
― Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners: A Muslim and a Jew Across the Middle East Divide
tags: hatred, history-repeating-itself, war 0 likes Like
Núria Añó
“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”
― Núria Añó
tags: 1930, 1930-s, 1930s, antihero, antiheroes, antiheroine, antiheros, exile, exiled, exiles, exilio, feminism, feminist, feminist-memoir, historical, historical-perspective, history, history-of-religion, history-of-the-united-states, history-repeating-itself, humanity, jew, jewish, jewish-diaspora, jewish-identity, jewish-question, jews, nazi, nazi-german-1945, nazi-germany, nazis, nazism, past, politics, social, society, woman, woman-quotations, woman-quotes, woman-s-character, woman-s-charm, woman-s-secrets, woman-s-strength, woman-to-woman, womanhood, womanism, women, women-and-men, women-empowerment, women-quotes, women-s-fiction, women-s-inspirational, women-s-rights, women-s-strength, women-writers, womens-rights 0 likes Like
“History matters, not because it repeats itself (which it never does), but because its narration can rid demons that torment the oppressed, shock the complacent and intransigent into self-reflection, and inspire feats of human perseverance and will.”
― Seth Garfield, Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988
tags: brazil, history, history-repeating-itself, importance, oppressed, self-reflection 0 likes Like
“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.”
― Benjamin Suulola
tags: benjamin-suulola, destiny-lifters, history, history-repeating-itself, leadership-quotes, purpose-reminder-for-you, spectators, stirred-up, transformation-quotes, world-changers 0 likes Like
“God did not call us to make history; God called us to be history!”
― John M Sheehan
tags: history-of-mankind, history-repeating-itself 0 likes Like
“Humankind doesn’t have a genuine intellectual memory. They don’t need the Truth. They don’t want to know the Truth.”
― Robert Neil Fleischer, Alien Biography
tags: betrayal-quotes, blind-faith, history-repeating-itself, honor-quotes, humankind-human-nature, intellectual-history, politics-quotes, real-world-strategies-quotes, truth-and-lies, truth-quotes 0 likes Like
“It was indeed the transcendent force of modernization that accounts for the unparalleled strength of Know-Nothingism in Massachusetts. The political fallout from the pressures of modernization, however, included more than the backlash of the native-born majority against immigrants, Catholics, and the South that most historians perceive as the essence of Know-Nothingism. Explosive urban and industrial growth had thrust the Commonwealth into the forefront of the industrial states in the antebellum period, creating, in the process, wrenching social and economic dislocations. The failure of the established parties to mount a significant response to the myriad issues and problems spawned in the matrix of modernization weakened partisan attachments and set the rank and file of the established parties on a quest for a political vehicle that would make a difference in their lives. In 1854, such a vehicle materialized in the form of an antiparty, antipolitician populist movement that promised to cleanse the statehouse of corrupt old parties and self-serving political careerists and turn the government over to the people so that they might right the wrongs that had for so long afflicted them. Among the afflictions, it is true, were the many social problems associated with mass immigration; but there were other troubling and pervasive concerns endemic to an unharnessed, rapidly expanding urban, industrial order, including the tyrannical factory system, the decline in the status of labor, the widening gulf between rich and poor, and the deteriorating quality of urban life.”
― John R. Mulkern, The Know-Nothing Party In Massachusetts: The Rise And Fall Of A People's Movement
tags: history-repeating-itself, u-s-history 0 likes Like
Ljupka Cvetanova
“It's easy to write the history. All the eyewitnesses are dead.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
tags: aphorism, dead, democracy, easy, eyewitness, history, history-of-mankind, history-politics, history-repeating-itself, write 0 likes Like
George Santayana
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.”
― George Santayana