Forgetfulness Quote by James Carroll Download Open image “Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.” — James Carroll ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Forgetfulness Memories Memory Political Politics Tyranny
Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget — John Morley Copy Share Image
Memory is an act of meaning-making. It collects the disparate pieces of our lives and distills them. — Rebecca McClanahan Copy Share Image
For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is memory? To remember is an effort and to forget, effortless. And some memories get etched so deep in our system that they… — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will. — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…but, there are times… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“...she had discovered within herself the unlikely gift for functioning with equilibrium and efficiency inside a full-blown, unending nightmare. [A Red Cross worker during… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those blown to… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would willingly speak… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“The very act of story-telling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy. We tell stories… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“Back home, this Catholic kid was accustomed to a Protestant culture's condescension, but here he could see for himself the world-historic glories of Catholicism...… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“Apart from the museums that anchor the great cities of Europe and America, the Roman Catholic Church is what remains of "Christendom," the generating… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease… — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to… — Plato Copy Share Image
What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?” — Ade Santi Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
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