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.
H. G. WELLSThe path of least resistance is the path of the loser.
More H. G. Wells Quotes
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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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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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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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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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.
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The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf – it’s almost a law.
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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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We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
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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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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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Heresies are experiments in man’s unsatisfied search for truth.
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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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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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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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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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