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title: "10 Revisionists Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [“Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/change-we-were-sure-was-for-the-better-always-we-were-revisionists-2/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [“Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves. It's”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/change-we-were-sure-was-for-the-better-always-we-were-revisionists/)

[Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/)

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> [Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-gemmell/societies-need-heroes-so-we-travel-to-places-where-the-revisionists/)

[David Gemmell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-gemmell/)

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> [“Our cultural debt to the idolatry of pagan Egypt was largely expunged from history by Christian revisionists.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-meggs/our-cultural-debt-to-the-idolatry-of-pagan-egypt-was-largely-expunged/)

[Philip Meggs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-meggs/)

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> [Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis-gaddis/revisionism-is-a-healthy-historiographical-process-and-no-one-not/)

[John Lewis Gaddis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis-gaddis/)

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> [But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ernst-zundel/but-as-a-german-and-i-am-german-born-we-germans-are-condemned-once/)

[Ernst Zundel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ernst-zundel/)

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> [“Historical revisionists find what they set out to find.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gregg-frazer/historical-revisionists-find-what-they-set-out-to-find/)

[Gregg Frazer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gregg-frazer/)

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> [In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-scarborough/in-one-generation-of-silent-neglect-we-have-allowed-the-revisionists/)

[Rick Scarborough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-scarborough/)

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> [Very few people know that there is a whole school of historians that have existed in the United States from the 1940s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-stone/very-few-people-know-that-there-is-a-whole-school-of-historians-that/)

[Oliver Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-stone/)

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> [“The murderers are supposed to have been Jewish revisionists, an extreme party that want to be rid of the English and set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-byron/the-murderers-are-supposed-to-have-been-jewish-revisionists-an/)

[Robert Byron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-byron/)

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