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.
H. G. WELLSThere’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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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