Civilization Quote by Elie Wiesel

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing,

— Eric Kandel

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

— Elie Wiesel

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.

— Robert Wilson

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without…

— Werner Herzog

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

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

— Elie Wiesel

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

— Guy de Maupassant

“Without Time, Memory ceases to Exist”

— Levon Peter Poe

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

— Samuel Johnson

Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act…

— Italo Calvino

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