It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSThere’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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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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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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