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.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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.
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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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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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