Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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 are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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