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.
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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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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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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Advertising is legalized lying.
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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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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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