It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Crime 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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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