Defeated Quote by Mark Richard

I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.

— Puneet Issar

“One nation is weakened by a victory, another finds new forces in defeat”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood.

— Peter Handke

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has…

— Ibn Khaldun

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order.

— Adolf Hitler

The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so

— Anonymous

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.

— Friedrich Schiller

“history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify…

— Dan Brown

“Most histories are written by the winners of conflicts, but those written by the losers—if they survive—are often more interesting.”

— Brian Herbert

“A long war almost always places nations in the wretched alternative of being abandoned to ruin by defeat or to despotism by success.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville