History is written by the victors. Auteur: Walter Benjamin Copy Quote More from Walter Benjamin “The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as…” “Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creatio…” “The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than of c…” “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the “emergency situation” in whi…”