ما تعلّمنا إياه التجربة والتاريخ هو هذا: أن الأمم والحكومات لم تتعلّم قطّ شيئاً من التاريخ، ولم تتصرّف وفق أي دروس قد تستخلصها منه.

“What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on any lessons they might have drawn from it. Variant: What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel