Book Quote by Milan Kundera

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new…

— Milan Kundera

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

— Agnes Repplier

Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled.

— Karl Marx

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

It just worries me that if we start trying to erase history that we can learn from, where does that end? Do you start…

— Luther Strange

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

— Penelope Lively

Don't forget about the past, learn from it, or the history have a ways of repeating it.

— Ngan Hoai Tran Vo

“We come into a world with a history shaped by the subtle dichotomy of culture and ethos, the dynamic forces of ideas and philosophy,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Our consumer culture is organized against history. There is a depreciation of memory and a ridicule of hope, which means everything must be held…

— Walter Brueggemann

“In committing a work to memory we make it safe from decay. It stands untouched. Children memorize parts of stories their parents tell them.…

— Don DeLillo

“We need to free ourselves from the habit of seeing culture as encyclopedia knowledge, and men as mere receptacles to be stuffed full of…

— Antonio Gramsci