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.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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 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.
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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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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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