We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must… — 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
Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs... — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming… — 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
No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide… — 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
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through… — 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
“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
'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.' — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced… — 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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