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. 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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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