A Quote by Naomi Klein

People without memory are putty. — © Naomi Klein
People without memory are putty.

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A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better.
I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.
I thawt I thaw a putty tat.” “I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. “Now, then, luv, let’s get down to business
You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
A writer's main tool is his memory - his own memory, the collective memory of his people. And the strongest memory is the one that is created by a wound to the heart.
Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse.
Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
I shattered that memory by going back there. Without realizing it until it was too late, I replaced that memory with the emptiness of that day.
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting
Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man, without his vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning flattery if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just tribute to the memory of Botswain, a dog.
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