History Quote by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Download Open image “Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.” — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Made Winner Written
People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies. — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media. — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner 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
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
