Social contract Quote by Brian Alexander

“Nostalgia is a rebellion against an oppressive reality and an ontological search for the essence of one's being.”

— Anonymous

“A nation that fails to recognize and appreciate history is destined for decay.”

— Mark Mortensen

“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets…

— Daniel Menaker

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

— Michael Ignatieff

“Is nostalgia stopping our culture’s ability to surge forward, or are we nostalgic precisely because our culture has stopped moving forward and so we…

— Simon Reynolds

“...normally I consider nostalgia to be a toxic impulse. It is the twinned, yearning delusion that (a) the past was better (it wasn´t) and…

— John Hodgman

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human, to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”

— Roxane Gay

“(a) Nationalism, in the form of the historicist idea that the state is the incarnation of the Spirit (or now, of the Blood) of…

— Karl R. Popper

“As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and pass it…

— Monica Hesse

“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between…

— Don DeLillo

“The (nation) state's concern had been the development of citizens - social subjects whose identity was shaped by the goals of the state -…

— Gunther Kress

“Their history is largely a record of crime, war, disease, and terror, with just sufficient happiness interposed to give them, while it lasts, an…

— C.S. Lewis