One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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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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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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There’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.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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