Quotes & Sayings About History Is Written By The Victors

Good God - don't they teach you anything in those poor excuses for schools anymore?" Then he calms down, but only a little. "No, I suppose they wouldn't. History is written by the victors - and when there are no victors, it all winds up in corporate shredders." He looks out the window with the sad resignation of a man who knows he's too old to change the world. — Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself. — Sebastien De Castell

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that. — David S.Goyer

History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future — Morris L. West

History is written by the victors. — Walter Benjamin

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. — Kate Mosse

History is written by the victors
and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson

In reality, orthodoxy comes into being only after there are choices to be made, with competing, and mutually exclusive, options. Heresy is the choice that loses. Ecclesiastical history, like any other, is written by the victors. — Eric A. Eliason

History is written by the victors. Legends are woven by the people. Writers fantasize. Only death is certain.

"To Die for One's Country is Glorious," p. 131 — Danilo Kis

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this. — Josh Radnor

Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance. — Kate Elliott

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone. — Nick Bilton

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect. — Elia Suleiman

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris

History is written by victors," said Duko. "But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned. — Raymond E. Feist

For history is written by victors. They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them. — Amish Tripathi

History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate. — Megan Smolenyak

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. — Kate Williams

It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history. — Jennifer Beals

It is also said that history is written by the victors. This was particularly true in the Old Realm, where the official historians at the Library of Avaress had been required for centuries to be named Victor. — Robert Kroese

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner

The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? — Neel Mukherjee

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied? — Michael Duncan

It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors. — Cinda Williams Chima

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told. — Cinda Williams Chima

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits. — Mike Jay