A Quote by Elaine Pagels

It is the winners who write history - their way.

Elaine Pagels

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Elaine Pagels
American - Historian
Born: February 13, 1943

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

Joanne Harris

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

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.

Clive Cussler

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

Harold S. Kushner

The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and them empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.

Rush Limbaugh

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Stephen Colbert

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

I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history is national history. We're still suffering from that.

Kevin Starr

Blake & Murphy were winners, I was a winner, and winners usually gravitate toward each other. They helped me, so I helped them in any way I could. I knew they were able to retain their NXT Tag Team Championship on their own, but when the matches weren't going the way they wanted, I made sure to step in. We were an unstoppable group.

Alexa Bliss

(on A History of Western Philosophy) I was sometimes accused by reviewers of writing not a true history but a biased account of the events that I arbitrarily chose to write of. But to my mind, a man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if, indeed, such man exists.

Bertrand Russell

History is written by winners.

Alex Haley

History is written by the winners.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Rachel Martin

History gets written by the winners.

Cassandra Clare

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.

William S. Burroughs

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

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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