Law Quotes by H. G. Wells

10 Law quotes by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells’s reflections on law are concise, offering a speculative writer’s take on how legal frameworks shape and are shaped by societal evolution. This short collection hints at his visionary, often cautionary, perspective.

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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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It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

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A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of…

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and…

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Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not…

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The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him.…

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Socialism is the preparation for that higher Anarchism; painfully, laboriously we mean to destroy false ideas of property and self, eliminate unjust…

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If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will…

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Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a…

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Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and…

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... life falls into place only with God.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for…

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The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the…

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A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps.…

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The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

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The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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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…

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of…

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“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…

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[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line focused on…

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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…

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We must end war before war ends us.

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What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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