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Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

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You can't treat mental health on an assembly line, which is the way it is now organised.

If there has been a rise [in antisemitism in Europe] I am not surprised. In fact, it is perfectly understandable because Israel feeds feelings of antisemitism.

I turned down the OBE because it's not a club you want to join when you look at the villains who've got it.

Today, we are wary of criticising Israel, because of our feelings of horror and guilt at the atrocities committed against the Jews. If the Hungarian incident is examined, that inhibition may be lessened.

Loach: I think history is for us all to discuss, wouldn't you?

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

Thomas Jefferson

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