Rewriting History Quotes

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
― George Orwell

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.”
― Dan Brown, The da Vinci Code

“No matter what historians claimed, BC really stood for "Before Coffee.”
― Cherise Sinclair, Master of the Mountain

“The real war will never get in the books.”
― Walt Whitman

“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.”
― Tim Tharp, Knights of the Hill Country

“He always says that those who control the present can rewrite the past.”
― Anne Fortier, The Lost Sisterhood

“(both circumvented the handicap of deafness by answering only those questions they believed had been asked & accepting only those answers they believed had been uttered - a stratagem embraced by many an American advocate)”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It takes one person to rewrite the history book.”
― J.R. Rim

“Don’t be so caught up in the noble cause of responsibility that you lose your passion for who you are living for.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good.
And when she was “bad”,
Her Papa loved her anyway.”
― Kristen McKee, Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled

“Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard
To get her dear dog a bone.
Though the cupboard was bare,
When she focused elsewhere
Her heart overflowed with fun!”
― Kristen McKee, Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled

“History is dramatic license, covertly-financed with a sprinkling of gold dust from the newly-enthroned.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life!”
― Kristen McKee, Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled

“There was an old woman
Who lived in a shoe.
She had so many children
And she still kept her cool.”
― Kristen McKee, Nursery Rhymes for the Unconditional and Unschooled

“Quoting someone and rewriting their words makes it a quote from you and not them any longer. To change the meaning of someone's words without permission is offensive enough, to then contact the quoted person and try to justify it to them is even worse. It's verbatim or bust!”
― Stewart Stafford

“Sophie Kruger had worked in a house herself, up in Middle Swan. But now she pretended she was quality. There were none so self-righteous as those who rewrote their past.”
― Sandra Dallas, The Last Midwife

“Even if your history was erased because of some power. Don’t give up bcoz it flows in your veins ....Rewrite it if u must!”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

“I DON’T HAVE THE HABIT OF REMAKING, I HAVE THE HABIT OF REWRITING, SAY IT HISTORY OR VICTORY”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar