
“History is written by the victors.”
Source: The Night Eternal
“History is written by the victors.”
“History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha.”
Quotes https://www.wewishes.com/elon-musk-quotes/
Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1294921196564180994
“History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.”
Source: Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
“History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view.”
The Discovery of India (1946), pp. 287-8.
It Is Later Than You Think: The Need for a Militant Democracy http://books.google.com/books?id=szVGoBq-dkEC&q=%22actually+The+so-called+lessons+of+history+are+for+the+most+part+the+rationalizations+of+the+victors+history+is+written+by+the+survivors%22&pg=PA255#v=onepage (1939)
Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 19, citing Peiper to Karl Wortmann, November 28, 1974 in note 27.
“After a great war, history is written by the victors and legends develop which glorify them.”
from p. 35 of "The Third Reich and The Atomic Bomb [Review of The Virus House by David Irving]" in The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Pp. 34-35, June 1968), translated from the German by Margaret Seckel.
“History is the propaganda of the victors.”
Source: Corelli's Mandolin