Revisionism Quotes

Revisionism is a healthy historiographical process, and no one, not even revisionists, should be exempt from it.

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

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

You're the hero of your own story. So it's interesting for historical revisionism to happen. I had let go of my own story from my own childhood and whatever anger I had and I began to see it from a very different place. It's really easy to be like "This thing happened to me! Look what they did to me or are doing to me." These are such powerful ideas and it's so easy to hold onto them forever.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness.

It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. I’ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you’re dead.

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.

THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN.

He who controls the past controls the future.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.