It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men’s lives should not pay with their own.
H. G. WELLSHistory is a race between education and catastrophe.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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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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I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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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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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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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 past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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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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Our true nationality is mankind.
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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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