Historian Quote by Rolf Hochhuth Download Open image “Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.” — Rolf Hochhuth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Historian History Inspirational Knows Truth Truth is
“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.” — Sebastien de Castell Copy Share Image
“tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?” — Michael Duncan Copy Share Image
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. — Carol Tavris 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
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot. — Rolf Hochhuth Copy Share Image
Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests. — Rolf Hochhuth Copy Share Image
Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual. — Rolf Hochhuth Copy Share Image
“Tell my mother I stopped feeling frightened once I told myself they couldn't inflict half as much pain on me as she suffered when… — Rolf Hochhuth Copy Share Image
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
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been… — James A. Garfield Copy Share
In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share
If experiments are performed thousands of times at all seasons and in every place without once producing the effects mentioned by your philosophers, poets,… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
The footnote would seem to be the smallest detail in a work of history. Yet it carries a large burden of responsibility, testifying to… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
Who says history is stagnant? For a historian, facts do not change; it is the way we look at things, our interpretations, that are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
