History Quote by Howard Zinn

“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation of the…

— Hamilton Wright Mabie

“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of…

— Jonah Sachs

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West

“History is often made and buttressed by myths and folklore rather than facts.”

— Daikichi Irokawa

“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell…

— Tom Harper

“We will go on producing myths, ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves but, like everything else about us, they are in constant transition and…

— Richard Holloway

“Myth took the place of objectively conceived history. Myth, Michel Tournier has said, is “history everyone already knows.”2 As such, history becomes nothing but…

— Modris Eksteins

“This is the myth of the Dark Ages, the idea that history and progress pretty much stopped for a millennium after the fall of…

— Ehsan Masood

“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”

— Nancy Isenberg

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

— Jack Gantos

“Myth is the threshold of history.”

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“Our myths, our legends, aren't necessarily true, but they are truly necessary. They have to do with the way we interpret the world and…

— Jo Walton