“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
More from Karl Marx on History
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.”
“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.”
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.”
“History is not like some individual person, which uses men to achieve its ends. History is nothing but the actions of men in pursuit of their ends.”
Others on History
Thomas Carlyle
4 quotes“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”
Otto von Bismarck
4 quotes“The main thing is to make history, not to write it”
Salman Rushdie
4 quotes“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humani...”
Dan Brown
3 quotes“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 quotes“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”
Edmund Burke
3 quotes“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”
Edward Gibbon
2 quotes“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
José Ortega y Gasset
2 quotes“The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.”
Gregory Maguire
2 quotes“It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.”
Sir Winston Churchill
2 quotes“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
Flaubert
2 quotes“Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.”