History Quote by Charles Simic

“Poets and intellectuals...are the ones the tyrants go after first.”

— Frederick Smock

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

— Tosca Lee

“The history of man is a must read poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.”

— Megan Smolenyak

“History is always written to serve the powerful.”

— Kevin Emerson

“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. The writer doubles and trebles the power of writing when a ruler imposes silence on…

— Victor Hugo

“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

— Lucian of Samosata

“The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.”

— Danielle S. Allen

“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that…

— G.K. Chesterton

“History immortalises both the names of the greats and the tyrants without making a distinction between them.”

— Aziz Hamza

“tyrants always set about shaping history after their liking.”

— Douglas Bond