Cynicism is humor in ill health.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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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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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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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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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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