History Rewriting Quotes

There is that great proverb - that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. That did not come to me until much later. Once I realized that, I had to be a writer. I had to be that historian. It's not one man's job. It's not one person's job. But it is something we have to do, so that the story of the hunt will also reflect the agony, the travail - the bravery, even, of the lions.

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

We cannot re-write the whole of history for the purpose of gratifying our moral sense of what should be.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

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

History gets reinterpreted as time goes on. Many times, the participants are lost in the retelling of the story.