Top 71 History Is Written By Quotes
#1. History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
Carol Tavris
#2. History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
Jeffrey D. Sachs
#4. History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
Ray Stevenson
#5. History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
Harold S. Kushner
#6. Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes.
Robert The Bruce
#7. History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.
Megan Smolenyak
#8. 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
#9. History is written by people. People aren't always honest with others, or with themselves.
Hilary Thompson
#10. History is written by the winners. The books say the Indians were bad guys and the whites just needed a little land. It's like, Excuse me, let me take your car. I'm discovering it. I'm putting my flag on your windshield.
Mario Van Peebles
#11. If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?
Michael Duncan
#13. When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.
Daniel Handler
#14. In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
Nick Bilton
#15. History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
Edward Said
#16. 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
#17. History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself.
Sebastien De Castell
#18. 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
#19. The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.
David Gross
#20. 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
#21. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. History is written by the victors
and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
Neal Shusterman
#28. 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
#29. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner
#30. You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".
John Hodgman
#31. History is written by the victor, and if the elderly don't pass down their memories, eventually there won't be anyone else left alive who knows how the war was really fought.
Rachel Vincent
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.
Franz Kafka
#37. No wonder oral history turns out to be more accurate than written history. The first is handed down from the many who were present. The second is written by the few who probably weren't.
Gloria Steinem
#38. History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#39. The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.
Annie Leonard
#41. Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.
Wei Jingsheng
#42. History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.
Joachim Peiper
#43. History, that is to be written tomorrow ... to be read by our children ... to serve as their guide is written in our actions today. A greater call to responsibility I have not known.
Gary Holder-Winfield
#44. It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.
John Henrik Clarke
#45. My history of the Jesuits is not elegantly written, but is supported by unquestionable authorities, is very particular and very horrible. Their restoration is indeed "a step toward darkness," cruelty, perfidy, despotism, death and I wish we were out of danger of bigotry and Jesuitism.
John Adams
#46. History is written not only by posterity, but for posterity as well.
Stacy Schiff
#47. That history almost always repeats itself. And it is almost always written by men.
Ally Carter
#48. I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.
Rita Dove
#49. History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.
Jill Lepore
#50. God, Sarah. No. Just, no. I'm not talking money. I don't want your money. You think you can buy true power? You can't. If you could, history would be written by the practitioners." 'So, what then?" Here it was. "Your soul, Sarah. The price is your soul.
J.P. Sloan
#52. 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
#53. Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.
Jack Gantos
#54. History is full of lady engineers and spies and scientists. But history is also written by the victorious, and it may not surprise you that thus far the overwhelming winners have been straight white dudes. That hasn't worked out so well for everyone else.
Sam Maggs
#55. I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot.
Lev Grossman
#56. History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
Dan Brown
#57. History is, as we know, written by the winners.
Rachel Martin
#58. History is a story written by the finger of God.
C.S. Lewis
#59. There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged.
Howard Zinn
#61. Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
Jill Lepore
#62. It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.
G.K. Chesterton
#63. But don't forget my ideas are only what's been written down in history by the great people of the world who've gone before. All I've done is condense the wisdom of the world into an attitude for athletics. Athletics aren't just running, it's a way of life
Percy Cerutty
#64. There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world.
George W. Bush
#66. The New Testament was not written by historians with the critical spirit of a Thucydides or a Polybius, but by men moved by the fervor of faith. Under these circumstances, it is understandable that it contains discrepancies, some non historical legends, and polemics.
Marvin Perry
#67. History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Edna O'Brien
#68. The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#69. History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.
Christopher Bram
#70. Megeara wants to find it. (Arik)
And people in hell want ice water. The entire history of mankind is written by people wanting something they can't have. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#71. The computer on the desk of the student in school knows no history. It is not like a book, worn at the edges by human hands. No little child has written a note in it, long ago. It will not be passed down to the children of the children who use it. Its "meaning" is that there is no enduring meaning.
Anthony M. Esolen
