Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

History is riddled with blood and sin.

Killing Lions: A Guide Through the Trials Young Men Face

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.

The Rock Orchard

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Revolution

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Revolution

God bless you butterfly, because now I'm claiming you like no mate has ever been claimed in the history of our kind

Ryan

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

The Sense of an Ending

It takes a long time for people like Vorbis to die. They leave echoes in history.

Small Gods

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Screening History

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Marx in Soho: A Play on History

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.

Nexus

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Lucian's True History;

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Lullaby

Experience: the vehicle of history. Teenagers: the driving force behind fatal accidents.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

Surfacing

Destiny can sometimes be history coming back to bite you in the arse.

Scruffians! Stories of Better Sodomites

I'm out of tissues for toilet paper too. History notes just aren't....up to scratch

Stray

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

The Storyteller

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.

Starship Troopers