If history is written by victors, then memory is written…

“it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write…

— Harvey Mackay

“this was passed to writing and the content of a writing burned can no longer be handed back to memory, for writing abolishes memory…

— Erin Moure

“They told us to depend on memory, because nothing written down could be relied on. The Spirit travels from mouth to mouth, not from…

— Margaret Atwood

Memory is the dairy of the losers

— Saed Kakei

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

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

— Neal Shusterman

I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.

— Puneet Issar

History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.

— David Hepworth

“History is written by the victors, they say, and there was no one alive who would come forward to dispute Hoover’s fabricated story. Never…

— Bryan Burrough

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

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

— Edna O'Brien

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West

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

— Ray Stevenson