“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.” IfsShouldMemoriesNostalgiaParisCollectives Author:Rosecrans Baldwin
“Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything.” LosesMemoriesCollectivesDictatorAmnesia Book:Glasshouse Source: Glasshouse
“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.” PeopleMindFirstsImportantRememberFormArtistMemoriesGenerationsHonestEssentialsDrawsWitnessBeing HonestOur TimeCollectivesPerformersTyrantsFuture GenerationWipeEraseCollective Memory Author:Rene Balcer
“Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.” HardReasonRealitySeemsMemoriesMankindRocksDangerousCreationLessonsDrivenAwfulFallenCollectivesHard LessonsCollective Memory Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.” ThinkingLittlesCountryStoriesMemoriesProductsLessonsEntrepreneurAdmireEnterpriseCollectivesValleysCapitalistOutsidersVentureGraveyardResumesSiliconSilicon ValleySuccess StoriesCollective MemoryVenture Capitalists Author:Michael Malone
“I think I've got a peculiar disease. I call it the curse of history, and it has to do with the fugitive absence/presence of both personal and collective memory. At first I thought it was a kind of personal illness, just related to time, private time, time that passes in one's life. So I decided to forget and throw myself into the future.” ThinkingFirstsKindMemoriesForgetDiseaseDecidedIllnessAbsenceCurseRelatedCollectivesPeculiarFugitiveCollective Memory Author:Gilles Peress