FAF:History

History as a cycle
Many quotes reflect on history's tendency to repeat itself.


 * Most famously "those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it", which was paraphrased by Winston Churchill in 1948 from an early quote by George Santayana in a 1905-06 work which goes "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."


 * Sometimes the more bitter "History repeats itself. [It] has to. No-one listens." This is the body of a poem by Steve Turner from 2003.