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.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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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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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 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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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 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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