Memory Quote by Avishai Margalit

“Faced with the collective forgetting, we must strive to remember”

— Reni Eddo-Lodge

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

— Angela Davis

“What’s the harm in forgetting? What does remembering do? Kugel had read that the war in the Balkans was referred to as the War…

— Shalom Auslander

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,

— Mia Couto

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

People forget things that they knew.

— Randy Travis

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we…

— Elie Wiesel

Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving…

— Samuel Johnson