I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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 path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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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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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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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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