Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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 social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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