It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of… — Rene Balcer Copy Share Image
In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
“These things happen. And we say to ourselves, “Never again.” And a hundred years pass. And they happen. Again.” — Qntm Copy Share Image
Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.” — George will Copy Share Image
Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength.… — Michael Malone Copy Share Image
I say to the [European countries]: Hurry up and apologize to our nation, because if you do not, you will regret it.… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. — Ralph Davis Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of… — Blaise Aguera y Arcas Copy Share Image
“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember” — Reni Eddo-Lodge Copy Share Image
“Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the… — Richard Ashby Wilson Copy Share Image
To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive… — Gilles Peress Copy Share Image