History Is Written By The Winners Quotes

#1. 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

#2. History is written by the winners

Daniel Handler

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. History is, as we know, written by the winners.

Rachel Martin

#8. History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#9. History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with ...

Brad Meltzer

#10. History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

Harold S. Kushner

#11. History is always written by winners.

Amish Tripathi

#12. So Dad has joined the others up there. I feel that they do watch and guide, and I also feel that they join me in the hope that this story of our people can help alleviate the legacies of the fact that preponderantly the histories have been written by the winners.

Alex Haley

#13. History gets written by the winners, he said, and when the crooks win, you get crooked history.

Jeannette Walls

#14. People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

Colin Quinn

#15. History is written by winners.

Alex Haley

#16. Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza