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. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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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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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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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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