History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSIt is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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