Creatures Quote by Desmond Tutu

Even if we want to eradicate our ghosts, our dead, our murdered, even if you erase a name and the record of the existence…

— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

— Helen Dunmore

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

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

— George Orwell

It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people.…

— Rene Balcer

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

— John Cage

You let your past destroy you, or you use it to create something better

— Tyler Perry

How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.

— Jeanette Winterson

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back…

— Steve Toltz

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

— Anonymous