A Quote by Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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Jawaharlal Nehru
Indian - Leader
November 14, 1889 - May 27, 1964

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

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

Nick Bilton

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we do it, it's not. And more generally, it's the defeated who are tried, not the victors.

Noam Chomsky

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

Carol Tavris

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

Max Lerner

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

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

Edna O'Brien

We proved that the aggressors do not necessarily emerge as the victors, but we learned that the victors do not necessarily win peace.

Shimon Peres

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

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

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

It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.

Julius Streicher

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