Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"What experience and history teach is this --
that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."

by:	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) German philosopher
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Absolutely!!! -- Mike, Norwalk
Why do we continually make the same mistakes and never learn from the past - I think Bertrand Russell said it best 'Man's inhumanity towards animals is only surpassed by his inhumanity towards himself’ (I think that's the correct quote?) -- Robert, Sarasota
The U.S. has lost what morals and principles it had. Proof you ask? Bill Clinton! -- Joe, Rochester, MI
Collective intelligence and desires are reduced to their basest levels the bigger the collective becomes -- it is reduced to the lowest common denominator. In the end, man is an animal living in a world in which animals live by killing and eating other animals. It is conceivable that mankind will not ever lose those traits. -- E Archer, NYC

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