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
Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and… — 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
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
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
This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? –… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is… — 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
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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 when mind… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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