The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what… — 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… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle—to witness that even… — 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
Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,… — 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
So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of… — 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
If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while… — 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
