Oscar Camilion Quotes

This is an fascist society. We have to change its authoritarian structure …. And in the process we have to let a lot of people get away with crimes.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

We have a national memory in this country of about 7 minutes.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or woman.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Nothing is so retentive as a nation's memory.

If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.

We stand on the watershed dividing the past from the future. Let us bury the past in so far as it is dead and forget all bitterness and recrimination. Let there be moderation in speech and writing.... There has been violence—shameful, degrading and revolting violence—in various parts of the country. This must end. We are determined to end it. We must make it clear that political ends ae not to be achieved by methods of violence now or in the future.

Reconciliation does not mean covering history with a blanket. Reconciliation means truth, justice and love. Justice without love can degenerate into vengeance. We need to know the truth for medicinal reasons, so that what happened … will never happen again.

The history of this country is told by showing people who have contributed to it.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

The collective memory of America is short.

A people without a positive history is like a vehicle without an engine.

If you forget your history, you forget who you are.

There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

My country has no history, only a past.

Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.