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You are victors, not victims! -- Joel Osteen
Even victors are by victories undone. -- John Dryden
To the victors belong the spoils. -- Andrew Jackson
History is written by the victors. -- Winston Churchill
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. -- George William Russell
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors. -- Max Lerner
I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. -- Abba Eban
It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. -- Giraldus Cambrensis
The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed? -- Neel Mukherjee
I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history. There's no question that various victors throughout history have flat out lied about certain events or written themselves into things, and then you come along and you find out that this disproves that. -- David S. Goyer
Despair makes victims sometimes victors. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
History is written by the victors. -- Winston Churchill
History is the lies of the victors, -- Julian Barnes
History is the propaganda of the victors. -- Louis de Bernieres
The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors. -- Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors. -- Cinda Williams Chima
In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom. -- Donald E. Williams, Jr.
If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied? -- Michael Duncan
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians. -- Rolf Hochhuth
History is written by the victors, but it's victims who write the memoirs. -- Carol Tavris
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality. -- M.T. Bass
We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us -- Suzanne Collins
History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. -- Ray Stevenson
Shout out for Joy! Don`t scream out in fear for victors shout and victims scream. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors. -- Donald Rumsfeld
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. -- Kate Morton
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders. -- Neal Shusterman
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It is, as we know, the victors who write the history, especially when only the victors know how to write. -- Neil MacGregor
History is written by the victors, which is certainly true, but it's also written by the wealthy and the literate. -- Megan Smolenyak
In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone. -- Nick Bilton
Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side. -- George Eliot
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
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. -- Kate Mosse
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
You want to be merciful. To stand in the light. I understand it. I admire it. But, my queen...Only the victors can be merciful. -- Joe Abercrombie
Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
In a nuclear war there would be no victors, only victims. The truth of peace requires that all ... strive for a progressive and concerted nuclear disarmament. -- Pope Benedict XVI
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect. -- Elia Suleiman
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. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war; we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Power...Born out of nature, Coveted by men; Wars rage on, And victors are crowned. But true power can never be lost or won. True power comes from within. -- Emily Thorne
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak. -- Will Durant
The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to. -- Noam Chomsky
There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton. -- Matt Labash
How many hopes and dreams are trapped within these bones? How many wonders lie never to be discovered? This is what war is. Desolation, despair and loss. There are no victors. -- David Gemmell
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims. -- Elie Wiesel
Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female... I am going back into the arena. -- Suzanne Collins
Everyone has problems. It's how you choose to deal with them. Some people choose to be whiners some choose to be winners. Some choose to be victims some choose to be victors. -- Richard Paul Evans
Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing. -- Mary Carolyn Davies
If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits. -- Mike Jay
(On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony." -- Margaret Thatcher
Stand us against a wall and shoot us, well and good, you are victors. But why should I be brought before a Tribunal like a c-c-c-... I can't even get the word out! -- Robert Ley
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured. -- Edward R. Murrow
History isn't all fact--it's just the story the victors tell to keep themselves in power. And it's been a slow revision. The more time passes, the easier it becomes to reinvent the past. -- Heather Anastasiu
I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire. -- Thomas Paine
History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated. -- Julian Barnes
Democracies are notorious for a tendency to obey the feelings rather than the mind; thus the nature of democracies often makes itdifficult to conclude a peace after a hard-won war. Generous victors are rare. -- Amos Elon
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile. -- John Maynard Keynes

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