History Quote by Michael Duncan Download Open image ““If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?”” — Michael Duncan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Lies Truth
“History is written by the victorious, the liars, the strongest, the most determined.” — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.” — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.” — Mark T. Barnes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write.” — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“History is initially written by the victors who survived until being rewritten by the vanquished who survived longer.” — Michael William Cook Copy Share Image
“As the historian Appian records: “So perished on the Capitol, and while still tribune, Gracchus, the son of that Gracchus who was twice consul, and of Cornelia, daughter of that Scipio who robbed Carthage of her supremacy. He lost his life in consequence of a most excellent design too violently pursued; and this abominable crime, the first that was perpetrated… — Michael Duncan Copy Share
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their fears and openly confront dictators such as in East Germany and Eastern Europe about 22 years ago... The yearning for freedom cannot be contained by walls for long. It was this yearning that brought down the… — Angela Merkel Copy Share
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
