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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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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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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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.
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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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