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.
H. G. WELLSIf we don’t end war, war will end us.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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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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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.
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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
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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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Sailors 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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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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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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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
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The past is but the past of a beginning.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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