History Quote by Max Lerner

History is the propaganda of the victors.

— Louis de Bernieres

History is written by the victors.

— Winston Churchill

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of…

— Julian Barnes

“History is written by the survivors.”

— Gareth Johnson

History is written by the victor

— Anonymous

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

— Michael William Cook

History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.

— Carol Tavris

History is the lies of the victors,

— Julian Barnes

History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.

— Joachim Peiper

“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

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

— Brian Herbert