A Quote by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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

Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
Born: April 17, 1938

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

Steve Rushin

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

Ziad K. Abdelnour

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

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

Colin Quinn

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

Harold S. Kushner

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 is written by the winners.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History is written by winners.

Alex Haley

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

Rachel Martin

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

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

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

Where is it written that the Olympics are only for winners?

Eddie the Eagle

We must create a history of India in living terms. Up to the present that history, as written by the English, practically begins with Warren Hastings, and crams in certain unavoidable preliminaries, which cover a few thousands of years...The history of India has yet to be written for the first time. It has to be humanized, emotionalized, made the trumpet-voice and evangel of the race that inhabit India.