Roger Rees Quotes

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

In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.

Never, ever forget history.

After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.

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.

We must study history to learn its lessons, absorb its spirit of possibility, extract and emulate its models of excellence and possibility and honor the moral obligation to remember. We must measure ourselves in the mirror of the best of our history and constantly ask ourselves how can we use the past as a foundation to inform, expand and enrich our present and future.

No people can live in the past - not even in its own past. But if it no longer has a link with its history, it must of necessity perish. Persia, crowded with hardship and glory, ordeals and hopes. With the help of the Almighty, the lessons of the past constitute the best guide for the citizens of the future.

We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

History is an insistent force: the past is what put us where we are. the past cannot be put behind until it is settled with.

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

Our goal is to move forward, but we know that to avoid falling backward, we must be willing to look backward and to come to terms with what happened in the past.

Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

We must turn the page on the dark parts of our history.

It's incumbent on all of us to remember our history and not repeat our past sins.

History is the most dangerous substance that the chemistry of the intellect has created…. I makes men dream, intoxicates them, breeds false memories in them, aggravates their responses, takes up their ancient grievances, torments them in their sleep, carries them into the delirium of grandeur or else of persecution, and turns nations bitter, intolerable, and vain.

History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

We sometimes have a tendency to learn the lessons of recent history and convert them into articles of faith.