Ben Harper Quotes

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies.

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Nothing overshadows truth so completely as authority.

Censorship is the conscience of society.

The lessons of history are taught by the victors.

The control of the past depends above all on the training of memory

Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

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 whole history of the world has been the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

Reality is self-defined as the mob, any mob, writes its own history, never to be contradicted by the quiet statement of truth.

History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

Propaganda replaces moral philosophy.

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous.

The control of knowledge is the crux of tomorrow's worldwide struggle for power in every human institution.