I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and… — 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
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. — 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
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 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
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily… — 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
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