history Quotes

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.