H. G. Wells

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

— H. G. Wells

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

— H. G. Wells

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

— H. G. Wells

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

— H. G. Wells

When a man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear.

— H. G. Wells

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

— H. G. Wells

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

— H. G. Wells

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

— H. G. Wells

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more…

— H. G. Wells

The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and…

— H. G. Wells

“The peaceful splendour of the night healed again. The moon was now past the meridian and travelling down the west. It was…

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Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the…

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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a…

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I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am…

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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

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a…

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I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on…

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War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through…

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There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the…

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The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are…

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Even men who were engaged in organizing debt-serf cultivation and debt-serf industrialism in the American cotton districts, in the old rubber plantations,…

— H. G. Wells

Everywhere in the world there are ignorance and prejudice, but the greatest complex of these, with the most extensive prestige and the…

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The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome…

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I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days,…

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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

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“The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.”

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There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in…

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To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and…

— H. G. Wells

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of…

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The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate?…

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The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them - that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank…

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We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

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...the Idumeans (Edomites) were...made Jews...and a Turkish people (Khazars) were mainly Jews in South Russia...The main part of Jewry never was in…

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All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a…

— H. G. Wells

London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into…

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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

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Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and…

— H. G. Wells

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out…

— H. G. Wells