H. G. Wells

Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

— H. G. Wells

Our true nationality is mankind.

— H. G. Wells

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess

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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

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The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture…

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There are no social differences - till women come in.

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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.

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Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…

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The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

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There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it…

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You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's…

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I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild…

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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience…

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable…

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Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able…

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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

Alexander the Great changed a few boundaries and killed a few men. Both he and Napoleon were forced into fame by circumstances…

— H. G. Wells

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up…

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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden,…

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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly…

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I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and…

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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth…

— H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

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Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart…

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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

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Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill.

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The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

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No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

— H. G. Wells

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

— H. G. Wells