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History is the lies of the victors,
— Julian Barnes
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.
— Carlos Fuentes
History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.
— Stephanie Perkins
With Iran's long history of lies and non-cooperation, why are we talking to them? Why are we giving them legitimacy?
— Neil Cavuto
It's true what they say, then-history is written by the victors.
— Cinda Williams Chima
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
— Grover Cleveland
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
— Nancy Pickard
Read Between The Lies Of History: Research & Destroy
— Dean Cavanagh
John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (New York: Walker and Co., 1998), 94.
— Tom Vanderbilt
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
— Thomas Carlyle
Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.
— John Szarkowski
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.
— Meridel Le Sueur
Had not history always been an inhumane, unscrupulous builder, mixing its mortar of lies, blood and mud?
— Arthur Koestler
It's all a matter of history.Brandy is no solace.
Librium only lies me down
like a dead snow queen.
Yes! I am still the criminal. — Anne Sexton
I've always believed the lies we use to make our fictions reveal the truth with far more honesty than any history or herstory or life story.
— Charles De Lint
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.
— Jean Cocteau
The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.
— George Eliot
HIstory collects secrets like politicians collect lies.
— Steve Robinson
Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
— Immortal Technique
If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?
— Michael Duncan
History is a collection of agreed upon lies.
— Voltaire
to know your past is to know your future. Where lies the strength of the stem and the fruits of the branches when the roots are rotten?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious
— Anatole France
Any attempt to solve a conflict has to touch upon its very core; the core, more often than not, lies in its history.
— Noam Chomsky
Memory is the most potent truth.Show me history untouched by memories
and you show me lies. — Carlos Eire
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
— George Orwell
The motive force of history is truth and not lies.
— Leon Trotsky
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
— Winston S. Churchill
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
— Anatole France
The study of history lies at the foundation of all sound military conclusions and practice.
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.
— Anatole France
History is replete with blunders written by sycophants.
— Tomichan Matheikal
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
— George Bernard Shaw
History is not just the lies of the victors; it is also the self-delusions of the defeated.
— Julian Barnes
We are sitting on top of a vast cultural and historical pyramid of accumulated misconceptions, lies and myths, built one on top of the other.
— Bryant McGill
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
— Winston S. Churchill
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
— George Santayana
He lied all the time even when there was no need to lie [ ... ] He needed a _history_, a sense of self. [Burnside on his father, p. 22]
— John Burnside
Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
— Catherynne M Valente
History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.
— Courtney M. Privett
We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.
— Frederic William Maitland
The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.
— Ernest Renan
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies.
You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise. — Maya Angelou
I liked all their lies best, for I think they are the brightest part of anybody's history.
— William Kennedy