“Whoever writes on world history, but not as a forensic history, becomes thereby an accomplice.”

“Every civilization sees itself as the center of the world and writes its history as the central drama of human history.”

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.”

“While the whole world is attracted and distracted by unnecessary criticism, music writes history.”

“If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.”

“Victors write history.”

“History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.”

“I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.”

“The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.”

“Writing the history of the present is always a very different thing from writing the history of the distant past. The history of the distant past depends entirely on literary and documentary sources; the history of the present always involves unwritten material as well as documents. But the difference was much greater in the days of Thucydides than it is now.”