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

— Michael William Cook

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

— Mark T. Barnes

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

— Michael Duncan

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

— Sebastien de Castell

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

— Nbdycrs

“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

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

“That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors.”

— Kate Morton