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?
H. G. WELLSHuman history in essence is the history of ideas.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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 want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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