The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
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
Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world — 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
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
... 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
The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the… — 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
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
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
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. — 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