Sukarno Quotes

There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

History takes time... History makes memory.

… history is that which transforms documents into monuments

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

We can't let the past be forgotten.

Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.

History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

History is the present day consideration of what went before.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity

If there was a day that history was not recorded, then the history of one hundred days would be in peril.

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

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

The world that birthed that story is long gone, all its people are dead, but it continues to touch the present and future because someone cared enough about that world to keep it. To put it in words. To remember it.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living.