Revisionism Quotes

• I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

  Antonia Fraser

  Thinking, Valuable, Deals

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• National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Past, Political, Narrative

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

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

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

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

  George Orwell

  Inspirational, Life, People

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• Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

  John Lewis Gaddis

  History, Healthy, Process

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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

  Charles A. Beard

  War, Libertarian, Perpetual

  "I am the perfect example of censorship in the United States". www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2001.

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• . . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

  Mao Zedong

  Cows, Likes, Dogma

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• 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

  Self, Names, America

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• THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

  Harold Covington

  Real, Holocaust, Political

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• You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever.

  Baron Vaughn

  Letting Go, Powerful, Hero

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. I’ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you’re dead.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

  Michael Moore

  Proof, Recovering, Presidency

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• Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

  Karen Abbott

  Rose, Musical, Chance

  Source: tech.blorge.com

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