It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSOnce 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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