A Quote by Carol Tavris

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

Carol Tavris

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Carol Tavris
American - Psychologist
Born: September 17, 1944

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

Neal Shusterman

History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.

David Hepworth

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

Jawaharlal Nehru

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.

Nick Bilton

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

Max Lerner

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

Kate Williams

I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.

Puneet Issar

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

Ray Stevenson

I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.

Josh Radnor

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Edna O'Brien

I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.

Elia Suleiman

You are victors, not victims!

Joel Osteen

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Kate Mosse

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that.

David S. Goyer

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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