Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. WELLSCrime 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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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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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.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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