History Quote by Mark T. Barnes

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

— Michael Duncan

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

— Neil MacGregor

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

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

— Julian Barnes

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

— Nbdycrs

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

— Michael William Cook

“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

“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous…

— Gordon White

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who…

— Anthony Doerr

“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be…

— Guy Sajer

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

“History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate.”

— Megan Smolenyak