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.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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.
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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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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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 crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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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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