Labour-party-uk Quote by Christopher Hitchens

“Only the victors have stories to tell. We, the vanquished, were all cowards and weaklings by then, whose memories, fears, and enthusiasms should not…

— Guy Sajer

“Only victors have stories to tell, we the vanquished were then thought of as cowards and weaklings whose memories and fears should not be…

— Guy Sajer

“He hadn’t finished: ‘Let us bring down our righteous anger against the festering scum who by their cowardice and sloth have reduced the British…

— John Sweeney

“an army of incompetents, poltroons, political cronies, and victims—always there are the victims whom the others send to slaughter in their stead—”

— John Jakes

“In conquering the fearsome beasts, the conquerors had unwittingly orphaned themselves.”

— William Stolzenburg

“No, the events which I am about to describe were simply too monstrous, too shocking to appear in print. They still are. It is…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the nation, had…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Once and for all the idea of glorious victories won by the glorious army must be wiped out Neither side is glorious On either…

— Peter Weiss

“History is full of examples of slaughter and victory.”

— Bobby Adair

“In any system of terror, the functionaries must first of all see the victims as less than human, and Victorian ideas about race provided…

— Adam Hochschild

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the…

— Rene Cassin

“riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago,…

— Paul Scott