Mankind Quotes by H. G. Wells

10 Mankind quotes by H. G. Wells

Wells’s take on mankind is colored by his imagination and a keen eye for social flaws. These ten snippets capture his blend of futuristic vision and grounded critique.

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“Mankind has got to start getting the big things right.”

H. G. Wells

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Our true nationality is mankind.

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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

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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am…

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The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome…

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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like…

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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through…

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The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while…

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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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