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.


"Fable", p. 87 - The Hot Gates (1965)

William Golding Quotes

Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that...

Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that...

Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that...

Before the Second World War I believed in the perfectibility of social man; that a correct structure of society would produce goodwill; and that...