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H. G. Wells
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A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Time
#Will
#War
#Men
#Dissension
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#History
#Education
#Race
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Humor
#Health
#Cynicism
In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Time
#Years
#England
#Perception
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Past
#Beginning
#Dawn
#Twilight
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#War
#Blind
#Conflict
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#World
Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Mankind
#Nationality
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Hell
#Church
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#People
#Trouble
The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Today
#Tomorrow
#Crisis
The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Teaching
#Thought
#Doctrine
#Heaven
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Word
#America
#Americans
#Socialism
If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Will
#End
#War
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Past
#Beginning
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Jealousy
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Golf
#Law
#Man
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Nothing
#Ugly
#Measure
#Imperfection
#Engineering
#Ugliness
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Nothing
#Death
#Purpose
#Wrong
#Danger
#Suffering
#Revolution
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Living
#Education
#University
#Graduation
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Chance
#Will
#World
#End
#Man
#Cheerfulness
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#First
The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Success
#Measure
I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Artist
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Now
#Nature
Advertising is legalized lying.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Advertising
#Lying
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Affliction
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#People
#May
#Meaning
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Heart
#Beauty
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#End
#Crime
#State
#Failure
#Community
#Measure
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Time
#Future
#Race
#Despair
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Man
#Truth
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#History
#Education
#Race
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Nothing
#Knowledge
#Literary
Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#History
#Ideas
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#World
#Draft
#Passion
I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Imagination
#Sea
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Want
#Time
#Father
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Today
#Yesterday
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Successful
#Beginning
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Play
#Politics
#Cards
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Men
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Leaders
#Fire
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells,
English
Author
#Man
#Nature