It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSThe 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?
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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.
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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.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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