A Quote by Max Lerner

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

Max Lerner

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History Lessons Most Part So-Called Survivors Victors Written

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Max Lerner
American - Journalist
December 20, 1902 - June 5, 1992

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--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

History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.

Julian Barnes

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

Kate Mosse

I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

George Orwell

History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley

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

Carol Tavris

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.