Rewriting History Quotes

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

  Ed Koch

  People, Feel Good, Rewriting

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

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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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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• He who controls the past controls the future.

  Laozi

  Future, Past, Political Language

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• 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

  Memories, Believe, Thinking

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

  George W. Bush

  Historian

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

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• 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

  Education, People, Rewriting

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• 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

  Book, Rewriting, Records

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