Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

Any nation that forgets its past cannot have a future.

A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory.

A nation’s attitude toward its own history is like a window into its own soul.

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

A lot of people may not read the history of their own country, but they carry on memories transmitted by previous generations. They're trying to achieve something, [they] have their mission and anger -- all this is fed by past experience of history.

Happy is the nation without a history.

I don't think the British carry a historical consciousness either.

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.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

History is information. Memory is part of your identity.

A nation creates itself not just with what it remembers, but with what it forgets.

History is the memory of states.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

History is a novel whose author is the people.

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

Our national future does not demand we revise and malign our past.

I feel like the people from Iceland have a different relationship with their country than other places. Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were cruel to other people.

History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.

A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.

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

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

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

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

No nation is formed within a night, one generation's era of even two. A nation can be described as the continuous string of many generations that time, this pitiless, thoughtless sword of nature, separates their physical connections along the course of their history.

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.