History is written by the victors.
– Walter Benjamin
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- History is written by victors,- said Duko. -œBut I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned. – Raymond E Feist
- You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
- It’s true what they say, then-history is written by the victors. – Cinda Williams Chima
- That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. – Kate Morton
- While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. – MT Bass
- History was once rewritten by the victors. Now we write our own immutable histories with every email, text, and post. – Kent Alan Robinson
- If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. – Albert Camus
- The work of memory collapses time. – Walter Benjamin
- No more semblance or disemblance, no more God or Man, only an immanent logic of the principle of operativity. – Walter Benjamin
- How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! – Walter Benjamin
- Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. – Walter Benjamin
- All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. – Walter Benjamin
- The expressions of those moving about a picture gallery show ill-concealed disappointment that they only find pictures there. – Walter Benjamin
- There is no document of civilization that is not also a document of barbarism. – Walter Benjamin
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- As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth. – Walter Benjamin
- Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. – Walter Benjamin
- Languages are not strangers to on another. – Walter Benjamin
- Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man. – Walter Benjamin
- Any order is a balancing act of extreme precariousness. – Walter Benjamin
- My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
- Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
- History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
- Only the people who are born of God can become victors and overcomers in this evil world – Sunday Adelaja
- Morality is decided by the victors – Ian V Hamrick
- What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won’t get the vim to step out of their situations. – Israelmore Ayivor
- We’re victors, remember? We’re the ones who can survive anything they throw at us – Suzanne Collins
- Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream. – Jaachynma NE Agu
- The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils. – Stephen L Carter
- Only victors have stories to tell,we the vanquished were then thought ofas cowards and weaklings whose memoriesand fears should not be remembered. – Guy Sajer
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- One man is as good as another until he has written a book. – Benjamin Jowett
- Written in pain, written in aweBy a puzzled man who questionedWhat we were here for – David Bowie
- The power of the written word goes way beyond the page on which it is written – Sheena Sexton
- Your past has already been written and the words cannot be changed, but your future is waiting to be written; make it a bestseller. – Abigail Landsbrook
- I feel that a book is never written by the writer aloneit’s written by him and everyone around him be it directly or indirectly – Subhasis Das
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- Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian W Aldiss
- Be-patient for what was written for you was written by greatest of writers – Altaf ul qadri
- They say everything that can be written has been written. I say we are just getting started. – Andrew Barger