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
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. — 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
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
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 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
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 little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur. — 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
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
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