History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone. — Nick Bilton Copy Share Image
“It's not quite true that history is written by the winners. It's written by the best publicists on the winning team.” — Jason Fagone Copy Share Image
In history there's what's written down and there's what actually happened. — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes. — Robert the Bruce Copy Share Image
One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
“Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape… — Annie Leonard Copy Share Image
All the old history was written for the amusement of the ruling classes. The lower classes couldn't read, and their rulers didn't… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing,… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history… — Ira Berlin Copy Share Image
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind when history was written, the final page will say: Victory was achieved by the United… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics,… — David Gross Copy Share Image