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Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

I hope that memory is valued - that we do not lose memory.

Culture change means we will do things differently.

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

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.