Consumer culture Quote by Walter Brueggemann

“Memories, dreams, and our imagination are linked inextricably with the objects of our lives and the rich associations we have with meaningful places. But…

— Sarah Robinson

“We're so caught up in our everyday lives that events of the past, like ancient stars that have burned out, are no longer in…

— Haruki Murakami

“The opposite of memory--hope. SO things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures.”

— Isaac Marion

“What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don’t understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip—even, and…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“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

“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of…

— Mal Peet

Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future

— Maxim Gorky

“The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past,…

— Javier Marias

History is the memory of life

— DrMohammed Abad Alrazak

“History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.”

— T.L. Rese

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind

“People quickly forget their pasts, often speculate about future, and too busy to think about today. However, we all forget that the past is…

— John Taskinsoy