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. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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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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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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