Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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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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