A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
Bacteria is the only culture some people have.
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Philippe: "Tell me Driss, why do you think people are interested in art?"
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
Driss: "I don't know, it's a business?"
Philippe: "No. That's because it's the only thing one leaves behind."
Driss in Intouchables
9The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta
8Art is a way of survival.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
I like that about art, that what you see is sometimes more about who you are than what’s on the wall. I look at this painting and think about how everyone has some secret inside, something sleeping like that yellow bird.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.
Heather Brewer in Vladimir Tod - Ninth Grade Slays
3It's not always the most powerful who write history. It's the ones who survive.
Liandrin Guirale in The Wheel of Time - Season 2
1People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.
This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost.
Captain John Price in Call of Duty - Modern Warfare
If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us.
Viserys Targaryen in House Of The Dragon - Season 1 Episode 1
A historian is a hunter, my lord. Seeking out signs in the undergrowth of correspondence and memoir, tracking prey via the spoor of memory.
Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 3: Queen of Fire
The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.
History is a living thing. Paper is dead.
Elder in Castlevania - Season 1 Episode 2
You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.
History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.
Francis Underwood in House of Cards - Season 2 Episode 7
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.
Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.
Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?