H Quotes
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“History repeats itself. As do the methods used by those specializing in the elimination of leaders who unite people into a strong force for dignity, justice and self-determination.”
Source: The Assassination of Michael Collins: What Happened At Béal na mBláth?
“History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.”
Source: Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business
“History repeats itself but does not replicate itself; it moves more like the wheels of a vehicle. Every revolution brings it to a new point in space-time that has few similarities with the old. Yet, we use some points to create a lable and then, without having the time and inclination to identify and analyse the differences, we stick the old label on the new point.”
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, Karl Marx wrote, correcting Hegel. But what's next? There's no word for a farce of a farce.”
Source: It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
“History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“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.”
“History repeats itself over and over again, but most of us have short memories.”
“History repeats itself, though on a new basis. Just as formerly, during the period of the downfall of feudalism, the word "Jacobin" evoked dread and abhorrence among the aristocrats of all countries, so now, in the period of the down fall of capitalism, the word "Bolshevik" evokes dread and abhorrence among the bourgeois in all countries. And conversely, just as formerly Paris was the refuge and school for the revolutionary representatives of the rising bourgeoisie, so now Moscow is the refuge and school for the revolutionary representatives of the rising proletariat. Hatred of the Jacobins did not save feudalism from collapse. Can there be any doubt that hatred of the Bolsheviks will not save capitalism from its inevitable downfall?”
“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.”
Source: Clearing the ground
“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.”
Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)
“History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.”
“History repeats itself.”
“History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.”
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
“History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.”
“History repeats, but science reverberates.”
Source: The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
“History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more: like thought, like water, history is fluid, unpredictable, dangerous. It leaps and surges and doubles back, cuts unpredictable channels, surfaces suddenly in places no one would expect.”
“History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!”
“History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls.”
“History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.”
“History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!”
“History rhymes, incompetence repeats itself.”
“History's kaleidoscope worked its permutations, its pace ever faster, approaching some unknown crescendo.”
Source: Schismatrix Plus
“History says that humans sleeping in moonlight turn into lunatics. Today that does not happen and one has to query why?”
“History says that I'm one of the best pound-for-pound, and I won't stop until I'm number one.”
“History says that progress often requires sacrifice, but what kind of progress can we claim when it is built on the lives of the citizens it is supposed to aid?”
Source: The Testing 2: Independent Study
“History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme”
“History seems to be so clumsy.”
“History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.”
Source: The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation
“History serves as a model not only of who and what we are to be, we learn what to champion and what to avoid.”
“History should be about every generation's will to power.”
“History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.”
“History should be written as philosophy.”
“History should not be just a light to the past but a signal light to the future.”
“History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.”
“History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.”
Source: The Uses and Abuses of History
“History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.”
“History showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.”
“History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.”
Source: The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires
“History shows fans want consolidation; you see it across the web every place. The big players are people like Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook.”
“History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.”
Source: The rise of the Dutch Republic: a history in three volumes
“History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think.”
“History shows that anything conducive to our national stability is good.”
“History shows that changes in sovereignity and state borders as a result of conflicts, as well as the rise and fall of political regimes in different parts of the planet, often forcibly divide local populations and/or artificially modify the names of places. At all latitudes, such measures arise from the political need to impose apparent homogeneity of culture and language, according to the model of the nation-State that does not tolerate exceptions to the supremacy of its founding values.”
Source: Topographical Names and Protection of Linguistic Minorities
“History shows that great economic and social forces flow like a tide over communities only half conscious of that which is befalling them. Wise statesmen foresee what time is thus bringing, and try to shape institutions and mold men's thoughts and purposes in accordance with the change that is silently coming on. The unwise are those who bring nothing constructive to the process, and who greatly imperil the future of mankind by leaving great questions to be fought out between ignorant change on one hand and ignorant opposition to change on the other.”
“History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
“History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.”
Source: Danube
“History shows that male homosexuality, which like prostitution flourishes with urbanization and soon becomes predictably ritualized, always tends toward decadence.”
“History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.”