Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Until a man has found God, he begins at no beginning and works to no end. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a man has found God and been found by God, he… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The British Islands are small islands and our people numerically a little people. Their only claim to world importance depends upon their… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn. — H. G. Wells Copy Share
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
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… — H. G. Wells Copy Share
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