History Repeats/Quotes

""Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.""

- Karl Marx

"They say the next big thing is here,

That the revolution's near;

But to me it seems quite clear

That it's all just a little bit of history repeating."

- "History Repeating", by the Propellerheads and Shirley Bassey.

"Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes."

- Vimes in Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett.

"History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history."

- Clarence Darrow

"All this has happened before and will happen again."

- Numerous folks in ''Battlestar Galactica' (Originally a quote from Peter Pan)

"History comes full circle. Sometimes humanity survives, other times.... it's obliterated. We tell stories to help us remember history. To keep us from reigniting a war that could no doubt destroy another planet and perhaps another race. I wish the best of those who find a fallen meteor, who uncover a little secret, who follow the trail, or reconstruct my nightmare."

- Grizzly one in Battlezone 1998 by Activision

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

- Mark Twain, giving us the No Except Yes version.

"Those who fail to remember History are doomed to repeat it."

- George Santayna