Victors Quotes

“What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?'

'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.

'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated. ...

'Finn?'

'"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“Life is not compassionate towards victims. The trick is not to see yourself as one. It's never too late! I know I've felt like the victim in various situations in my life, but, it's never too late for me to realize that it's my responsibility to stand on victorious ground and know that whatever it is I'm experiencing or going through, those are just the clouds rolling by while I stand here on the top of this mountain! This mountain called Victory! The clouds will come and the clouds will go, but the truth is that I'm high up here on this mountaintop that reaches into the sky! I am a victor. I didn't climb up the mountain, I was born on top of it!”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Self-education is open to all but it is taken only by those who refuse to live a small and purposeless life.”
― Seema Brain Openers

“We're victors, remember? We're the ones who can survive anything they throw at us”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop an atom bomb on a civilian population, not to save the environment. However, you must admit, the victors are never tried for war crimes.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“What differentiates victors and victims are visions and vigor. Victims won't get the vim to step out of their situations.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

“History is:

+ the lies of the victors

+ the self-delusions of the defeated

+ a raw onion sandwich

+ certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation”
― Barnes julian

“The habits that govern our lives determines if we will be victors or victims.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“While victors may get to write history, novelists get to write/right reality.”
― M.T. Bass

“Only the people who are born of God can become victors and overcomers in this evil world”
― Sunday Adelaja

“History is written by victors,” said Duko. “But I have little use for history. It is the future with which I am concerned.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Shards of a Broken Crown

“Winning is irreplaceable winners are.”
― Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

“But even the Nazis realized that if there was something that gave more power than merely destroying the word, it was owning and controlling it.”
― Anders Rydell

“To the connected and ruthless flow the spoils.
-From Counternarratives”
― John Keene

“For historical accuracy, we have scrubbed all dissenting opinions from history...”
― Bill Gaede