Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit. — 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
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
It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. — 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 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
It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together… — 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
If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. — 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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