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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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