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.
H. G. WELLSSailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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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.
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If we don’t end war, war will end us.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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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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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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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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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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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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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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It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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