A Quote by Colin Quinn

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

Colin Quinn

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Colin Quinn
American - Comedian
Born: June 6, 1959

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

Steve Rushin

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

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

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

When I was young I believed that "nonfiction" meant "true." But you read a history written in, say, 1920 and a history of the same events written in 1995 and they're very different. There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Margaret Atwood

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

Rachel Martin

History gets written by the winners.

Cassandra Clare

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

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

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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

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

Nick Bilton

It is unfortunate that so much of the history of Africa has been written by conquerors, foreigners, missionaries and adventurers. The Egyptians left the best record of their history written by local writers.

John Henrik Clarke

Most of everything I've ever written actually was written on acoustic. 'Do You Feel' was written on electric. 'I'm in You' was written on piano.

Peter Frampton

I never felt like a happy-go-lucky ingenue to begin with. And parts are written better when you're older. When you're young, you're written to be an ingenue, and you're written to be a quality. You're actually not written to be a person, you're written for your youth to inspire someone else, usually a man. So I find it just much more liberating.

Laura Linney

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