The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
We can't let the past be forgotten.
I think we really forget how connected we are to the past.
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.
The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.