Dominant Narratives Quotes

History is written by those who win and those who dominate.

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

History is the propaganda of the victors.

I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

Most people, they get overwhelmed by the religious stories, the nationalist stories, by the economic stories of the day, and take these stories to be the reality.

The first problem of the media is posed by what does not get translated, or even published in the dominant political languages.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.

Some forms of truth are really forms of social power and oppression.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.