Big sur Quote by Ralph Ellison

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

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

— Michael Duncan

“History had a way of playing cruel tricks on those who chased it.”

— Dan Brown Angels and Demons

“if history remembered him as an idiot, well, he was only one among billions of people. History could spare one man. All men are…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“History is a merciless judge. It lays bare our tragic blunders and foolish missteps and exposes our most intimate secrets, wielding the power of…

— David Grann

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

“We've just lost our way, that's all. But what if you could give us a chance to do better? Just one chance? One single…

— Ben Elton

“One cannot take revenge upon history; history is its own revenge”

— Shashi Tharoor

“History, in any case, cannot be reduced to some sort of game of comparing misdeeds in different eras; each period must be judged in…

— Shashi Tharoor

“Even if something just happened, it can still be history”

— Stephanie Kate Strohm

“The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar—another means to control.”

— Chris Galford

“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