All MARK TWAIN Quotes about “History”

“Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
“Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.”
“I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.”
“History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.”
“It's so damned humiliating.”
“By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.”
“History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.”

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