History is chronicled by conquerors.

Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade…

— Walt Mossberg

I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.

— Om Puri

Never have lives less lived been more chronicled.

— Dennis Miller

Twitter! Never have lives been less lived and more chronicled!

— Dennis Miller

“Everything wants to be remembered, chronicled, documented: everything - all of this and all the rest, because your life is neither a finite length…

— Alex Jeffers

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

— Peter Ackroyd

“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand…

— Otto Weininger

“Conquerors, my son, consider as true history only what they have themselves fabricated.”

— Emile Habiby

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”

— Jack Gantos

The "social contract," in the only sense in which it is not completely mythical, is a contract among conquerors, which loses its raison d'être…

— Bertrand Russell

“They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force—nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an…

— Joseph Conrad

“You see, that's the thing with conquerors, they cannot stop conquering, for then they would have to start ruling, and my guess is Jarasandh…

— Gourav Mohanty

“As far as we can tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors of the North, the unifiers of the kingdom, and the…

— Leonard William King