A Quote by Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
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History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.
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.
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
I believe that history is written by the victors, but what about the vanquished? They also have a story to tell.
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.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
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.
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
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.
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
It has been said, "History is written by the victors." I take this to mean we can make ourselves victorious by writing, and then rewriting our own stories. In a country and culture so dominated by media, by the manipulation of words and stories, telling the tales of people whose stories historically have not been told is a radical act and I believe an act that can change the world and help rewrite history.
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