We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
H. G. WELLSThe 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?
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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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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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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