The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth.
When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.
America has become amnesiac, a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.
Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.