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“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time…

— Heather Anastasiu

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in…

— Brad Meltzer

“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

“History is a record of "effects" the vast majority of which nobody intended to produce.”

— Joseph Schumpeter

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every…

— George Orwell

“Don't let history write itself for you.”

— Christine Stobbe

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. . . . History is always written…

— George Santayana

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“We know little about history beyond its public displays, and even then what we know is reconstructed.”

— Mark Wallace