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. WELLSOnce 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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.
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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.
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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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.
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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.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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