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The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in which we live is the rule. We must arrive at a concept of history which co...more

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What matters for the dialectician is having the wind of world history in his sails. Thinking for him means: to set the sails. It is the way they are s...more

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History is written by the victors.

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To articulate what is past does not mean to recognize “how it really was.” It means to take control of a memory, as it flashes in a moment of danger.

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Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead...more

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There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism.

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That things are "status quo" is the catastrophe.