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. WELLSHeresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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