Top 17 Collective Amnesia Quotes
#1. Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is permitted to grow old slowly. Nobody talks of the past, for fear their wounds might reopen. Privately though, their wounds never heal.
Cristina Garcia
#2. When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.
Jonathan Powell
#3. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.
Richard Russo
#4. No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children so that we can grow up to blow you away.
Adora Svitak
#5. Think about this for a second. Why is it that we would not invest even a single dollar without diversifying it and managing risk, but do exactly the opposite, putting all of our eggs in one basket, with our regular income in our careers? - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design
Chris Lutz
#6. The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Peter Medawar
#7. Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.
Charles Stross
#8. I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that.
Gene Wilder
#9. Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man, but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
#10. Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.
Henry Adams
#11. Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
Stephen Gardiner
#12. Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!
Iwane Matsui
#14. I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.
Taya Kyle
#15. I was half asleep but I smiled. In spite of all his irritating qualities, I couldn't help liking a man who despised a fictional character with such passion.
David Benioff
#16. But her arms were probably the best of her. They were brown and round and good.
J.D. Salinger
#17. Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.
C.S. Lewis
