History Manipulation Quotes

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.

The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

Very often history is a means of denying the past.

What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist.

Patriotism corrupts history.

History is easy to change.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.

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

Many try to force the past to change.

History teaches me that the dollar rules and whoever writes history writes it however they want.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

We're not really allowed to admit that, maybe as humans, sometimes we need to revise our own histories and frame things in a more positive light than is true.