Being human Quote by Bettany Hughes

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

— Ralph Davis

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,…

— Wendy Griswold

Memories need to be shared because there will come a time that our memory fades and memories are forgotten.

— Merlyn

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

— Haruki Murakami

History is the memory of life

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group. Collective memory,…

— Wendy Griswold

Memory has always been social. Now we're using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

— Clive Thompson

It seems to me, that this, too, is how memory works. What we remember of what was done to us shapes our view, molds…

— Rebecca Walker

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,…

— Henry Giroux

Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory.…

— Haruki Murakami

You could make a good case that the history of social life is about the history of the technology of memory. That social order…

— Eben Moglen

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.

— I. L. Peretz