Our true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSOur true nationality is mankind.
H. G. WELLSThe 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.
H. G. WELLSThe crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
H. G. WELLSOne of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. WELLSThe 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?
H. G. WELLSLeaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. WELLSAdapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
H. G. WELLSHuman history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. WELLSThe past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
H. G. WELLSOnce the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
H. G. WELLSCynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSA 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. WELLSThe path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
H. G. WELLSThere 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.
H. G. WELLSBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WELLSI had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
H. G. WELLS