Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSIn 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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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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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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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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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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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