Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Stay with and pursue your dreams, and history will tell your stories in golden, glossy and embossed shining foils

Discovering Yourself

Saturated Arrogance ...she rebuked those about her in darkness did she dwell a pathetic history all mortal man would tell..

Enigmatic Evolution

But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like--history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Ender's Game

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Education of a Wandering Man

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Your place in history depends on what you do for others, not what others do for you.

Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Einstein's Beach House: Stories

We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention.

Fight Club

I saw an infinity of forgotten details dancing across history's dizzying expanse.

A Fifty-Year Silence: Love, War, and a Ruined House in France

You're Professor Mills? The new one who teaches history?" As opposed to the old Professor Mills who preached overthrow of the government?

Fair Game

Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good.

Fugitive Pieces

...all concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable.

On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

History chews up sexually uncertain boys, and spits us out as recycled, generic greeting cards for lonely old men.

Grasshopper Jungle

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

The Gospel of Loki

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

The Grapes of Wrath

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

A Happy Death

We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them.

The Hundred-Year House

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.

On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

Almost every major turning point in the history of mankind was a side-effect of totally unrelated intentions.

The Book of Aftermath

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Bloodlines

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Bloodlines