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. WELLSCrime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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?
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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