History Quote by Michael William Cook

History is written by the victor

— Anonymous

“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.

— Winston Churchill

“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

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

— Megan Smolenyak

“History is written by the survivors.”

— Gareth Johnson

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

— Michael Duncan

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

— Brian Herbert

“They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough.”

— Mark T. Barnes

“History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain.”

— Péter Esterházy

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

— Carol Tavris