Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that therefore you could remove all social ills by a reorganisation of society. .... but after the war I did not because I was unable to. I had discovered what one man could do to another... I must say that anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head...
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in s… - William Golding
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in s…
- William Golding
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? - William Golding
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment. - William Golding
I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other. - William Golding
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies. - William Golding
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces… - William Golding
I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces…
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. - William Golding
The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth. - William Golding
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us. - William Golding
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
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