-> "''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.''"
-->-- '''Creator/KarlMarx''', ''The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte''

->''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 Music/ShirleyBassey'''.

->''Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. [[ReignOfTerror People die]], and [[FullCircleRevolution nothing changes]].''
--> -- '''[[Literature/{{Discworld}} Vimes]]''' in ''Literature/NightWatchDiscworld'', by Creator/TerryPratchett.

-> ''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 ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' (Originally a quote from ''Literature/PeterPan'')

-> ''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 [[{{EarthShatteringKaboom}} destroy another planet]] and perhaps [[{{PrecursorKillers}} another race]]. I wish the best of those who find a fallen meteor, who uncover a little secret, who follow the trail, who [[{{SealedEvilInACan}} reconstruct my nightmare]].''
--> -- '''Grizzly One/Jason Bates''', ''VideoGame/Battlezone1998''

->''[[DistinctionWithoutADifference History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.]]''
--> -- '''Creator/MarkTwain'''

-> ''Those who fail to remember History are doomed to repeat it.''
--> -- '''George Santayana''', ''The Life of Reason''

->''Time begins and then time ends''
->''And then time begins once again''
->''It is happening now, it has happened before''
->''It will surely happen again''
--> -- the '''Time Prophet''', ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' ("Brigadoom")

->''That which has happened is a warning. To forget it is guilt. It must be continually remembered. It was possible for this to happen, and it remains possible for it to happen again at any minute. Only in knowledge can it be prevented.''
--> -- '''Karl Jaspers''', referring to the Holocaust.

->'''Garrosh''': Step aside, pandaren. You confront a force beyond reckoning.\\
'''Taran Zhu''': Your father dabbled in powers "beyond reckoning". Where is ''he'' now?
--> -- ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''

->''History is important, gentlemen! If you can't learn from it... you're destined to repeat it.''
--> -- '''Professor Bartholomew Oobleck''', ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}''

->''Was die Erfahrung aber und die Geschichte lehren, ist dieses, daß Völker und Regierungen niemals etwas aus der Geschichte gelernt.''
->''What we learn from history is that we never learn from history.''
--> -- '''Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel''', ''Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Geschichte'' (''Lectures on the Philosophy of History''), 1832

->''Zu Jeder Zeit''
->''An Jedem Ort''
->''Bleibt Das Tun''
->''Der Menschen Das Gleiche''
->''(In every time, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same.)''
--> -- ''Literature/LegendOfTheGalacticHeroes''

->''He will come back.''
->''He always does.''
->''We have a place for him.''
--> -- Trailer of ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 Five Night's at Freddy's 3]]''

->''History is much like an [[TitleDrop endless waltz]]. The three beats of war, peace, and revolution continue on forever.''
--> -- '''Mariemaia Kushrenada''', ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz''

->''Everything repeats over and over again. No one learns anything because no one lives long enough to see the pattern.''
--> -- '''Marceline''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' ("Checkmate")

->''"The pattern has repeated itself more times than you can fathom. Organic civilizations rise, evolve, advance. And at the apex of their glory, they are extinguished."''
-->-- '''Sovereign''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect''

->''"People say that history repeats itself. This would be exactly true, if time were not always moving forward. It once had a beginning, and it will have an end, stretching the circle of history into a spiral. Every turn, every event or action is a repetition of what had happened before, yet it is never exactly the same."''
->''"Take the story of the young Gaiar, a story of the foolish, the brave and the treacherous -- this happened so many times in the past, and this will happen again, until the end of time. Such is man's part in this world."''
-->--'''Ending Narration''', ''Videogame/{{Hammerfight}}''

-> '''Herc''': You best watch your ass, cause the slingers out here? They're like the crack babies' babies. \\
'''Poot''': [[LampshadeHanging Man, every year,]] everybody's like: "Yeah, these kids out here, they're a new breed. I ain't never seen nothing like this before. This the end of the world now."\\
'''Carver''': Look around, fuckhead. This seem like the dawn of a new day to you?
-->--'''Series/{{The Wire}}''', [[Recap/TheWireS03E02AllDueRespect "All Due Respect"]]

->''The history book on the shelf\\
Is always repeating itself''
-->--'''Music/{{ABBA}}''', "Waterloo"

->[[MonsterMash It'll]] start again, chief. It always does. It's what makes monsters monstrous, in a way. We can be killed, but we come back. When I'm [[ThisWasHIsTrueForm fully opaque]], some other idealist or madman will start to disappear. [[InformationWantsToBeFree Knowledge is out in the world and can't be taken back]]. This town isn't just a graveyard, it's a spawning ground. Sure, [[ElephantGraveyard we come here to die]], but we also come to be reborn. And many of us are ''from'' here. [[NotSoDifferentRemark Just like you]].
-->--'''[[Literature/TheInvisibleMan The Man]],''' ''The Chill Clutch Of The Unknown,'' ''Creator/KimNewman''

->''"Every few generations the really, really bad ideas come back around for another go."''
-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-12-15 Monday December 15th 2008]]

->Time is a circle. We know this. Events repeat themselves. [[PrescienceByAnalysis All our models tell us that]]. The Plagues of Egypt being a one time occurrence was a statistical unlikelihood. Hence we are not surprised. [[TheOmniscient We rarely are.]]
-->--'''Bong Cha''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->'''Tilly:''' It's just like in your stories, Gramma! Every generation, the kids have to stop the old folks from givin' up on this place!\\
'''Cricket:''' Yeah, Gramma! The stuff in the box isn't the treasure, the farm is!
-->--''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'', "Family Legacy"

->''"Shit, man, when I heard we was after Hussein, I was like, 'Really? That’s so '[[UsefulNotes/TheEighties 80s]].' The whole war seemed like a bad Creator/VH1 special. Hussein's back and Bush is back and Cheney’s back and Music/PaulaAbdul's back. Shit, before you know it, it’ll be [[Music/MCHammer Hammer time]] again. 'Stop! Hammer time!'"'''
-->-- '''Creator/ChrisRock''', ''Never Scared'', on [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the 2003 Iraq War]]

->'''UsefulNotes/LeBronJames:''' Well, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny, I need to assemble an elite team of A-plus ballplayers to help crush [[BigBad this Al G. guy]]. And I need to do it before that game clock runs down.\\
'''Bugs Bunny:''' Hol...hold up, doc. So you want me, a talking cartoon bunny, to play with you, an NBA superstar, in a high-stakes basketball game? ''[[[BreakingTheFourthWall smirks at the camera]]]'' [[Film/SpaceJam Sounds awfully familiar.]]\\
'''[=LeBron=]:''' [[AudienceWhatAudience Who are you talking to?]] But yeah, that actually sums it up well.
-->-- ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy''

->''"Politicians run on the same [[PopularityPolynomial 30-year nostalgia cycle as pop culture]]. In TheEighties, [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]] cashed in on being a [[TheFifties 50s]] TV star, and in TheNineties, [[UsefulNotes/BillClinton Clinton]] cashed in on being a [[TheSixties 60s]] activist. And right at the changeover of [[TheNewTens 30 years since the 80s]] to [[TheNewTwenties 30 years since the 90s]], we had [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump another reactionary, iconoclastic TV star]] running against [[UsefulNotes/JoeBiden another white-haired, folksy liberal who's not as progressive as he sells himself]], and- [[BigOMG Oh, my god]], [[ExplainExplainOhCrap in 2024, the Republicans are going to run the next]] [[UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush W]], [[ExplainExplainOhCrap aren't they]]? ''(sighs in exasperation)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Ugh]]..."''
-->-- '''Innuendo Studios''', "[[https://youtu.be/shSLPcp4C18 CO-VIDs: the 90's neoliberal fantasia as experienced by daria morgendorffer, millennial]]"

->''[[DefiedTrope History would not repeat itself here]], [[TheCynic Kyril]] swore that would not happen. That was his duty as [[TakingUpTheMantle the First Hunter]]. [[KnightInSourArmor He would not fail here]].''
-->-- ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls''

->''"That Website/{{Cracked}} article I mentioned earlier called Music/RobinThicke the new Music/VanillaIce, and it lists a whole ton of connections between them: public images that fell apart, one big hit that dwarfs all the others, getting sued for plagiarism..., but there's one big connection that it doesn't mention, which is that they were both destroyed by the same song that made them huge."''
-->-- '''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows''', ''Trainwreckords'': "Paula" by Music/RobinThicke

->''"I'm first out again. I'm out first again. Every series, I'm out first."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler:Jimmy Solidarity]]''' realises he's the first to [[KilledOffForReal permanently die]] for the third time in [[WebVideo/LifeSMP the series]], ''WebVideo/DoubleLifeSMP'', Day 5

->'''Amethyst:''' We appear to have found the very ancient burial site of an Aboriginal Australian. Their civilization thrived on this continent for forty thousand years, until a more advanced group of humans from Europe arrived and conquered them, taking away their land and freedom.\\
'''Brianna:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Kind of like what the rats are doing right now?]]\\
'''Amethyst:''' ''(defensively)'' We're not conquering you! We… this is the only way to ensure everyone's mutual safety! Why can't you see that?!
-->-- ''Webcomic/InOurShadow'' [[https://tapas.io/episode/233329 page 61]]
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