The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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 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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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