Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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.
H. G. WELLSBiologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. WELLSThere 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.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSWhile 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.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
H. G. WELLSI want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. WELLSMan 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.
H. G. WELLSIf you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
H. G. WELLSOnce 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.
H. G. WELLSAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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