Crush humanity out of shape once more under similar hammers and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms Sow the same seeds of rapacious license and oppression over again and it will surely yield the same fruit according to its kind The above quotation is cited from Charles Dickens's - novel A Tale of Two Cities Here the author expresses a powerful idea about the cycle of history and human behaviour He wants to say that if someone takes a group of people and subjects them to the same harsh conditions and injustices they will react similarly and suffer similar consequences When a blacksmith hammers a piece of iron normally it changes in shape If the same metal piece is hammered by others it will change again similarly Notably the metal piece will bend and turn in the same way both times doesn't matter who is hammering on