41 Revisionist Quotes

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Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. — Albert Camus

The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. — Clarence Darrow

Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited. — Margaret Thatcher

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now. — Mort Sahl

True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. — Saul Alinsky

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. — Albert Camus

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. - Harold Wilson

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. — Harold Wilson

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it. — Paramahansa Yogananda

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. - Lewis Mumford

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. — Lewis Mumford

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are. — Niels Bohr

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. — Karl Marx

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. — Fidel Castro

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson

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More Revisionist Quotes

The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees. — Enver Hoxha

The official keepers of the Holocaust wage an international campaign to silence the disturbing questions. Most people never even hear the revisionist position because Jewish forces dominate the media and block mainstream access to material that questions Holocaust orthodoxy. — David Duke

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

That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image. — D. James Kennedy

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied. — Monica Lewinsky

You know, many people have called me, friends from the nationalist camp, revisionists and so on, from around the world, have called me over the years - and now again because of what happened - and they are all very cynical about the police and the authorities. — Ernst Zundel

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a very critical eye. — Paul Johnson

Just because history is written by the victor does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore, revisionist history should always be suspect. Better still, all history should be suspect. — Colonel Brian D. Perry Sr.

But as a German - and I am German-born - we Germans are condemned once again to be radical revisionists. — Ernst Zundel

When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage. — Simon Sinek

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great. — David Gemmell

Russia is an aggressive revisionist power. And they are working - there's evidence they're working to interfere not just in our electoral process, but the electoral processes of Europeans with the same toolkit - money, fake news, propaganda, and what those Soviets used to call aktivniye meropriyatiya, active measures. This is serious. — Daniel Fried

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians. — John Darnielle

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists. — Thomas Jefferson

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. — Sherman Alexie

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage. — Rick Scarborough

Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about the suffering and losses incurred during the Holocaust. The grim statistics that Ms. Grossmann presents in her carefully researched and well-organized book carry evidence of the terrible truth. But the testimony of the survivors she quotes contains the final, ineradicable facts of history. — Hilma Wolitzer

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make judgments in the objective conditions of that time. — Gerry Adams

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore. — Seth Grahame-Smith

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents. — Douglas Brinkley

There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq. — Joe Biden

We inherited these principles and these freedoms and we here highly resolve that we shall pass them on, as we will pass on an undivided Republic purged of racism and slavery, to our descendants. The popgun discharges of a few pathetic sectarians and crackpot revisionists are negligible, and will be drowned by the mounting chorus that demands: 'Mr Jefferson! BUILD UP THAT WALL'. — Christopher Hitchens

Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again because she feels far enough away now, and we dont see her much on the political landscape in this country, shes kind of disappeared and she doesnt speak out much anymore. — Jonathan Coe

It is only the working class at the head of the masses, it is only the working class headed by its real Marxist-Leninist party, it is only the working class through armed revolution, through violence, that can and must bury the traitorous revisionists. — Enver Hoxha

Since the election, since the formation of a government, the death in Iraq has increased. The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it. That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history! — Mark Shields

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

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