There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
History is written by the victors.
Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States.
Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.
In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Reality, the oppressor's tongue.
The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?
The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
I'm always told that what I say is controversial. Why is it controversial? Because I speak from a tradition that has now fallen out of favor with the dominant media in this country. And so when I say things like marriage should be between one man and one woman, I'm called a bigot.
The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
It is the winners who write history - their way.
Throughout the Islamic world the radical Islamists dominate the discussion although they may be in the minority.
When you say, "History is written by the winners," you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, "Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against." But you're probably part of it.
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
I think that a lot of social movements, political movements, powerful ones - certainly they form, collectively, an idea of the truth which becomes hard to question. It becomes a dogma, and from the inside it starts to look like common sense.
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.
Winners write the history.
When you go back and look at the history of anything, it’s always the records of the elite that survive.
