Quotes About Revisionism

Reconstruction revisionism arose in tandem with and provided a usable past for the civil rights movement. More than most historical subjects, Reconstruction history matters. Whatever the ebb and flow of historical interpretations, I hope we never lose sight of the fact that something very important for the future of our society was taking place during Reconstruction.

More history than ever is today being revised or invented by people who do not want the real past, but only a past that suits their purpose. Today is the great age of historical mythology. The defence of history by its professionals is today more urgent in politics than ever. We are needed.

I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.

The subject is also fascinating because of the nature of the revisionism—neuroplasticity radiates optimism. Books on the topic are entitled The Brain That Changes Itself, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, and Rewire Your Brain: Think Your Way to a Better Life, hinting at the "new neurology

History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It's a performance. It's entertainment. And if it isn't, make it so.

The question of who claimed defense rightly is usually decided by the victors, and sometimes only much later by more objective historians.

Il est faux que, comme on a longtemps osé le prétendre, il ait existé un ordre quelconque de Hitler ou de l'un de ses proches d'exterminer les juifs. Pendant la guerre, des soldats et des officiers allemands ont été condamnés par leurs propres cours martiales, et parfois fusillés, pour avoir tué des juifs.

This is the process by which everything from the past can be picked over, picked apart, and eventually destroyed. It can find no way of building. It can only find a way of endlessly pulling apart. So a novel by Jane Austen is taken apart until a delicate work of fiction is turned instead into nothing more than another piece of guilty residue from a discredited civilization. What has been achieved in this? Nothing but a process of destruction.

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

The pilgrims absolutely believed America had a God-given destiny, and our founding fathers did, as well. Throughout our history, America's presidents and leaders have reiterated this belief. John F. Kennedy referenced Matthew 5:14 and Winthrop's famous speech, as did Ronald Reagan and numerous other U.S. Presidents.4 Though modern day revision-ists try to rewrite and remove our history, the truth will always trump their lies.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.

Tudor historians were adept at rewriting history.

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-

You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history.

There was a time when history was written by a few people, the winners. Now, history is written by all of us all the time... That's the thing we keep telling our 14-year-olds, you know: anything you do right now, it's not going anywhere.

Just as all roads lead to Rome, so, too, do we logically arrive at the conclusion that the revisionist proposal to slight the final aim of the Socialist movement is really a recommendation to renounce the Socialist movement itself.

History is notoriously not about the past.

The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors

She was one of those shallow people who rewrote their own history and believed in the absolute truth of their own version.

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

To witness the degree to which victorious nations simplified and cheapened the narratives of their rivals?

History, people like to say, is written by the winners. The truth is, some of the most profound works on the past were written by those who considered themselves history's losers.

History is written by the future, and therefore distorted at its start.