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.
H. G. WELLSMoral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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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 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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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