Hermann Goering on war and history

The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

~ Hermann Goering, Nuremberg Diary, book by Gustave Gilbert

Herbert Marcuse: victors write the history books

Scholarship, i.e., the acquisition and communication of knowledge, prohibits the purification and isolation of facts from the context of the whole truth. An essential part of the latter is recognition of the frightening extent to which history is made and recorded by and for the victors, that is, the extent to which history was the development of oppression. And this oppression is in the facts themselves which it establishes; thus they themselves carry a negative value as part and aspect of their facticity.

~ Herbert Marcuse, "Repressive Tolerance," 1965

Dan Brown on history

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

~ Dan Brown

African proverb on historians

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always have their historians.

~ African proverb