Cowards Quote by Guy Sajer

“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not…

— Guy Sajer

“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.”

— Mark T. Barnes

“History is initially written by the victors who survived until being rewritten by the vanquished who survived longer.”

— Michael William Cook

“It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.”

— Neil MacGregor

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

— Michael Duncan

“History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.”

— Julian Barnes

“history is one sided, none of the stories are wholly true.  We only hear the stories the victor wants told.  The remaining stories, the…

— H.K. Savage

“The casualties of war are true heroes that everybody forgets to remember, even those who fight wars within themselves…”

— Michelle Horst

“A victor must speak not of the current state of the world, but of how it should rightfully be.”

— Nbdycrs

“War, in some ways, is merciful to men. It makes them heroes if they are the victors. If they are the vanquished - they…

— Samhita Arni

“We are not victims of our past, we are victors of our future”

— Tina Mitchell

“We are not meant to come through our battles as merely survivors. We are meant to come off the battlefield as victors, and to…

— Kristen M. Smeltzer