Appears Quote by Norman Davies Download Open image “The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation.” — Norman Davies ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Appears Memory Policy Politics Work
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
“Of what use was memory anyway than as a template for one's most reassuring self-deceptions!” — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be. — David Halberstam Copy Share Image
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human… — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
“More fundamentally, I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro 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 weaves and traps us at the same time according to a scheme in which we do not participate: we should never speak of… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
It is notorious that the memory strengthens as you lay burdens upon it, and becomes trustworthy as you trust it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The Law and Justice government does not want a bunch of foreign historians to decide what goes on in 'their' museum. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
For people familiar with Eastern Europe, Marci Shore's 'The Taste of Ashes' is, in spite of its subject matter, delicious. A professor at Yale… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Any historian worth their salt should be aware of wars, conflicts, catastrophes. They happen. This is part of the panorama. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
“Although the rival cereals of rye, barley,oats, buckwheat and millet have continued to exist in Europe, the triumphal march of king wheat was uncontestable” — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
One might have thought that 70 years was time enough to work out what really happened in 1939. It isn't the case. Misunderstandings and misinformation abound. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that... there is a limit to… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
I won't divulge the details, but there's a way to call somebody's phone and have whatever number you want appear on the caller I.D.… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
“Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra' That is, "Now your blessedness appears.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“It appears that you were meant to be mine only for a little while.” — Samantha Sotto Copy Share Image
One is always of his age and especially he who least appears so. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the… — Glenn Hubbard Copy Share Image
I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got… — Raymond E. Feist Copy Share Image
Most of the time, your risk management works. With a systemic event such as the recent shocks following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, obviously… — Myron Scholes Copy Share Image
What appears on the page comes out of your experience, and no-one is going to see it in quite the same way - so,… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
The dream appears to be real. It does really seem we are here in this world; but this is not so. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The island of Hawaii appears to be developing a Florida climate: Hot and humid with thunderstorms.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
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