Vindicated by History/Quotes

"The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing."

— Jorge Luis Borges, "Dead Men's Dialogue", Dreamtigers

"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality

"Here’s the good news.
Pinkshirts are mostly too intellectually turgid to make a case for the other side, and can rarely resist the temptation to use the soapbox. Great stories, the ones that stand the test of time, are multi-sided grand arguments about the human condition that consist of a combination of character, plot, setting, theme, and genre. Their meaning and their beauty is derived from the way in which those elements combust and resolve.
Big ideas, solid craft, and a compelling narrative will always triumph in the end over political agitprop."

—Pink Shirt Propaganda vs. Blue SF/F Storytelling by Scooter

If, in 1688, you had insisted that the concept of a “constitutional monarchy” was a contradiction in terms, that “constitutional” simply meant “symbolic” and the upshot of the whole scheme would simply be a return to the rule of Parliament, you were a Jacobite. Plain and simple.
And you were also dead wrong — for about two centuries. Most of the royal powers died with George III, but even Queen Victoria exercised a surprising amount of authority over the operations of “her” government. No longer.

—Mencius Moldbug., An Open Letter to Open-Minded Progressives (Chapter 3: The Jacobite History of the World)

When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;
The truth is great, and shall prevail,
When none cares whether it prevail or not.

—Coventry Patmore, Magna Est Veritas