A Quote by Louis de Bernieres

History is the propaganda of the victors.

Louis de Bernieres

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Louis de Bernieres
British - Novelist
Born: December 8, 1954

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

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

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

Max Lerner

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.

Winston Churchill

History is the lies of the victors.

Julian Barnes

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

Nick Bilton

What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?' 'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly. 'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ... 'Finn?' '"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)

Julian Barnes

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

Carol Tavris

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

Kate Williams

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

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

Ray Stevenson

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

Edna O'Brien

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

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