While 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. WELLSEvery time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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