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History is, as we know, written by the winners.

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Rachel Martin
American - Journalist

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

Eric McCormack

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

Colin Quinn

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

Steve Rushin

History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.

Harold S. Kushner

History is written by winners.

Alex Haley

History is written by the winners.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You know the old saying: "History is written by the winners. And also, the team of hand-picked historians that the winner keeps hidden away in an underground bunker".

John Hodgman

History gets written by the winners.

Cassandra Clare

History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

Dan Brown

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

History is written by the winners. My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout.

Ruth Negga

When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.

Daniel Handler

First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game.

Bear Bryant

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Salman Rushdie

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age.

Chuck Klosterman

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