"Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it……" — Errol Morris
"Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it."
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31 Quotes by Errol Morris
Errol Morris has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is…
- I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.
- Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape,…
- The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity.
- I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to…
- The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.
- A lot of the themes of my movies, the actual stories, come from tabloid stories.
- Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the…
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
- But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story.
- Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
- Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to…
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