Quotes About Revisionist

#1. Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!

Mark Shields

#2. We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time.

Gerry Adams

#3. It was strange. When I had read the newspaper, I had been enraged by the revisionist educational system that had been poisoning our youth for so many years. But now that I actually had to criticize the teachers who taught us every day, I could not find anything really bad to say about any of them.

Ji-li Jiang

#4. It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

Douglas Brinkley

#5. There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

Joe Biden

#6. He doesn't have anything like wisdom of age or hindsight. He's a biased historian of self, an emotional revisionist. We all are, for the most part.

Marc Maron

#7. We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.

Martin Filler

#8. You have to be a great liar to write fiction, a real historical revisionist.

M. Pierce

#9. Catholicism ... tries to grab all the poker chips on the table, kick everybody out of the game, and then pretend they were never there until the game was effectively over. It's just a ridiculous, obvious revisionist history.

Robert M. Price

#10. I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

Sherman Alexie

#11. No one, even as a joke, could call a member of the all-Union Communist Party a Neo-Hegelian, a Neo-Kantian, a Subjectivist, an Agnostic, or, God forbid, a Revisionist. But "epicurean" sounded so harmless it could not possibly imply that one was not an orthodox Marxist.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.

Simon Sinek

#13. Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye.

Paul Johnson

#14. Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

George W. Bush

#15. I think a lot of musicians play for the playback. I mean, that's the joy of recording - you want to hear what you've done and what you've contributed - but never listening to that playback kind of removes the intellectual part of making music, and it removes the tendency to be revisionist.

Jenny Lewis

#16. That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

D. James Kennedy

#17. You call our upbringing normal?"
"Mostly, yes! Don't get all revisionist. I was queer and lonely. You were weird and hungry. It wasn't nature or nurture. We're the ones who cultivated our abnormalities.

Rodney Ross

#18. In fact, I think you're a genius, Quinn. And I think I'm a genius for picking you." "Revisionist history. You didn't pick me. I inserted myself into your sordid plan." Lori grinned. "Right again. You are a genius at inserting yourself, Quinn Jennings.

Victoria Dahl

#19. There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#20. He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

Monica Lewinsky

#21. The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy.

David Duke

#22. Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we dont see her much on the political landscape in this country, shes kind of disappeared and she doesnt speak out much anymore.

Jonathan Coe

#23. Start by using this sentence for all of your wants: "I'm so happy and grateful now that ... "

Rhonda Byrne

#24. I have always believed there is great value in studying the flaws of mankind and men - even fictional characters. All of us are flawed. All of us are diminished by some form of prejudice and bias. If a fictional character is to be realistic, he must struggle with imperfections and weaknesses.

K. Lee Lerner

#25. The Art of Fulfillment is the ability to experience not only the thrill of the chase, but also the magic of the moment, the unbridled joy of feeling truly alive.

Tony Robbins

#26. SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. You are the greatest poem ever written.
You are the greatest song ever sung.
You are the greatest portrait ever painted.
You are the greatest symphony ever composed.
You are the greatest act ever performed.
You are the greatest masterpiece ever created.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#28. Vain, silly creature. Made for loving? Yes, but she'll have no lover, for I don't want her and she'll see no other.

Jean Rhys

#29. Bible-believing Christians cannot accept any evolutionary interpretation. Dinosaurs and humans were definitely on the earth at the same time and may have even lived side by side within the past few thousand years.

Brad R. Batdorf

#30. I'm just raising money. Dead presidents are my relatives.

Juicy J

#31. Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Margaret Atwood

#32. The spiritual path is easy. It's the only path that is.

Roger Delano Hinkins

#33. We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

H. Rap Brown

#34. A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.

Glen Chambers

#35. Instead of dying from the cold of winter, we find death in cholesterol.

Clay A. Johnson

#36. A lie is no less a lie because it is a thousand years old. Your undivided church has liked nothing better than persecuting its own members, burning them and hacking them apart when they stood by their own conscience, slashing their bellies open and feeding their guts to dogs.

Hilary Mantel

#37. It is absurd to look for perfection.

Camille Pissarro