Oriana Fallaci Quotes

History provides an antidote to cynicism about the past.

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

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

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Conservatism cherishes tradition; innovation fetishizes novelty. They tug in different directions, the one toward the past, the other toward the future.

Those who try to obliterate the past are injuring the present.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Never, ever forget history.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

I think my attitudes about the past are very traditional. You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.

I think memory is essential to what we are. If we - we wouldn't be able to talk to each other without memory. And what we think of as the present really is the past. It is made out of the past.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.