“Someone once said that history is written by the victors. He probably was not the greatest of all victors, if only because his name has been utterly forgotten.”
On the Norman conquest of England; Vol I; The Birth of Britain.
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956–58)
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Winston S. Churchill601
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874–1965Related quotes
“History is written by the victors.”
Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892-1940)
“History is written by the victor.”
Guillermo del Toro book The Night Eternal
Source: The Night Eternal
“History is written by the victors … except on Wikipedia haha.”
Elon Musk (1971) South African-born American entrepreneur
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“History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs.”
Carol Tavris (1944) American psychologist
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.”
Jawaharlal Nehru book The Discovery of India
The Discovery of India (1946), pp. 287-8.
Max Lerner (1902–1992) American journalist and educator
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)
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS officer
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.”
Werner Heisenberg (1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
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.
