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. 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 but the past of a beginning.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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