Dreams Quote by Utah Phillips

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America….

— Utah Phillips

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory

— Whittaker Chambers

“Memory extends as far as our self-interest.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The American people and media have an incredibly short memory despite technological tools that allow for infinite storage and recall.”

— Baratunde Thurston

“Memory itself is a political event. Social structures are often so powerful that they actually format memory into accepted boundaries, denying the validity of…

— Fran Leeper Buss

“Memory is the irruption of other things in us.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“A perfect memory is the enemy of thought.”

— Esther Murphy Arthur

“Memory really matters...only if it enables us to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.”

— Italo Calvino

Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our…

— Isabel Allende

“Since memory is, as we discussed, more fallible”

— David DiSalvo

“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”

— R. Lutece

“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”

— Herbert Marcuse