States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs... — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The idea of a world commonweal has to be established as the criterion of political institutions, and also as the criterion of… — 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
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
The ethical system of these men of the New Republic, the ethical system which will dominate the world state, will be shaped… — 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 world state must begin; it can only begin, as a propaganda cult, or as a group of propagandist cults, to which… — 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… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a… — 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