Quotes About History Is Written By The Victors

#1. 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

#2. History is written by the victors,' she said, 'but the truth has a way of revealing itself.

Sebastien De Castell

#3. 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

#4. History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

Carol Tavris

#5. 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

#6. History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.

Megan Smolenyak

#7. It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.

Cinda Williams Chima

#8. History is written by the victors.

Walter Benjamin

#9. History is written by the victors
and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Neal Shusterman

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

Ray Stevenson

#16. Under no circumstances do I ever want to see any part of me having sex! I wouldn't want to see video tape, pictures, in the mirror, nothing.

Moby

#17. Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Karl Kraus

#18. Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust.

Hilda Doolittle

#19. Being always transcends appearance-that which only seems to be. Once you begin to know the being behind the very pretty or very ugly face, as determined by your bias, the surface appearances fade away until they simply no longer matter.

Wm. Paul Young

#20. God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Criss Jami

#21. If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

Michael Duncan

#22. Portray your product as average and that's all that it will ever be.

Jeremy Gutsche

#23. The luck of Teela Brown.

Larry Niven

#24. In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Nick Bilton

#25. 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

#26. Enlighten yourself; you will find that the world is bright with your light.

Debasish Mridha

#27. I don't do 'gamification,' and I'm not prepared to stand up and say, 'I think it works.'

Jane McGonigal

#28. History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Edna O'Brien

#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. 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

#31. I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

Kate Williams

#32. Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

Gautama Buddha

#33. The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

Al Gore

#34. 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

#35. I've been playing in the field of life on my own for a while now and it's fair to say I have gained myself along the way, I gotta admit though, after all this time I am damn well excited to fall insanely inLove with someone who knows how to take my breath away.

Nikki Rowe

#36. 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

#37. Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez