Written History Quotes
Written History Quote of the day
History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
History is always written by the victor, and the histories of the losing parties belong to the shrinking circle of those who were there.
History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
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.
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?
When the history of African development is written, it will be clear that a turning point involved the empowerment of women.
I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.
A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth, whether it be so or not.
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.
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.
Three million years! The infinitely crowded panorama of written history, with its empires and its kings, its triumphs and its tragedies, covered barely one thousandth of this appalling span of time.