Amnesia Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

— Meridel Le Sueur

Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.

— Adam Vinatieri

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

— Meir Kahane

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins.

— Cormac McCarthy

Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future,…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

“Are all societies doomed to amnesia—or are there communities that have preserved their collective cultural memory? The world, which is the private property of…

— Anonymous

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is.

— Robert Smithson

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how…

— David McCullough

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

— David McCullough

Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.

— Chelsea Cain