Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.
The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
I don't particularly have a good memory. I think history is many times just the text written by the victors. I wanted to counter that aspect.
In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed by Jewish victors, were in the unique historical position of being 'the victims of the victims': there was something quasi-Christian, I thought, in the apparent humility of that statement.
You are victors, not victims!
Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.
To the victors belong the spoils.
Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female. . . I am going back into the arena.
Very old people are the real victors of this world! And the bitterish beauty in their faces is the most valuable beauty of the earth!
None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.
If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.
Even victors are by victories undone.
History is the propaganda of the victors.
Despair makes victims sometimes victors.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
For some reason, it didn’t feel right. Victor’s words seemed to confirm that. There was another reason that he’d come here. Falling in love with Elizabeth might have been part of it. But that wasn’t all. Something else was coming. There is more.
