Sukarno Quotes

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

We've got to map all of our ancient history before it's gone because, let's face it, if we don't have a common heritage to share, something to get excited about, then what are we living for?

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

A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.

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

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

History isn’t just what happened before we came on the scene. We are a part of history..

We can not escape history.

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.

I think it's good that we're sometimes reminded of important events in history.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

A concerted effort to preserve our heritage is a vital link to our cultural, educational, aesthetic, inspirational, and economic legacies - all of the things that quite literally make us who we are.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

If we lose our culture, we lose our memory.