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. WELLSI must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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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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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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