I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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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Once 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.
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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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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones they’ve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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