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. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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