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.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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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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