It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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