Books Quote by William Golding

“History books are filled with lies. Whoever wins the war tells the story.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“Think, too, of the great part that is played by the unpredictable in war: think of it now, before you are actually comitted to…

— Thucydides

“Constantly our thoughts are at war with what we do, many at times our actions have won this battle.”

— Kumbirai Dhliwayo

“War is inevitable when the world is fallen. If you stop one, another will start. Redemption is the only path away from war.”

— Jane Smiley

“... but is it crime or an act of war?" Depends on who's telling the story ...”

— Lavie Tidhar

“I fared better than many of the people I wrote about in this book; yet even so, over the course of the events depicted…

— Dexter Filkins

“And what does war even accomplish? How does one country win over another by simply killing its people? None of it makes any sense.”

— Susan Meissner

“so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no…

— Paul Feig

“War merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity.”

— John Connolly

“War did not make a killer of me, although for a time I killed men.”

— John Steinbeck

“You men may think you've won the war, but only because we let you think that.”

— Meredith R. Stoddard

“It makes no since to fight a war that is already won.”

— Angela Brown