Rewriting History Quotes:

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

- George W. Bush

source: George W. Bush during a Meeting with Small Business Owners in Elizabeth, New Jersey, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 16, 2003.

topic: Historian, Rewriting History

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

- George Orwell

source: Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

topic: Dream, Time, Peace, Dystopia, Power And Control

Should we be rewriting history just to make people feel good? That's not history, that's psychiatry.

- Ed Koch

source: Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

topic: People, Feel Good, Rewriting, Rewriting History

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Badass, Inspirational History, Story Writing

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

- George Orwell

topic: Inspirational, Life, People, Untruth, Revisionism

He who controls the past controls the future.

- Laozi

topic: Future, Past, Political Language, Power And Control, Looking To The Future

We’re constantly changing facts, rewriting history to make things easier, to make them fit in with our preferred version of events. We do it automatically. We invent memories. Without thinking. If we tell ourselves something happened often enough we start to believe it, and then we can actually remember it.

- S.J. Watson

topic: Memories, Believe, Thinking, Rewriting History

Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

- George Will

topic: Self, Names, America, Homophobes, Revisionism

I marveled a bit at the feat Lubianka re-education. I also began to understand more clearly what was meant by rewriting history for the proletariat and how it could be arranged that young people would hear nothing whatsoever of God.

- Walter Ciszek

topic: Education, People, Rewriting, Rewriting History

Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has ever received for rewriting history.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Book, Rewriting, Records, Rewriting History