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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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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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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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