History Quote by Emile Habiby

“History is chronicled by conquerors.”

— J. Tullos Hennig

“Be suspicious of history that is written by the conquerors.”

— Jack Gantos

“History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.”

— Kate Mosse

“know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but…

— Laila Lalami

“But remember that truth itself becomes a lie in the twisted minds of our conquerors.”

— Hilda van Stockum

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“He does not know that the ultimate truth is that history ought to consist only of the anecdotes of the little people who are…

— Louis de Bernières

“History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.”

— Manjul Bajaj

“... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the past, example and lesson to the…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?”

— Michael Duncan

“True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.”

— Victor Hugo

“Most often in history it was the conquerors who learned willingly from the conquered.”

— Eric Hoffer