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.
H. G. WELLSWhile 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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