“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

“التاريخ ليس سوى كذبة متفق عليها !(نابليون بونابرت) What is history but a fable agreed upon.”

“I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.”

“The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors.”

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.”

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”

“We have nothing but a history of our own invention to support this view. It suits us to believe it. It allows us to mistreat them, but convenience is not truth.”