H.G. Wells Quotes

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• Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
• I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the…
• Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
• You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done, my mind has…
• He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
• I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in…
• The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings…
• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
• We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands…
• Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
• The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his…
• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
• The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.....
• Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
• If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall.…
• Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of…
• Go away... I'm alright.
• We were not making war against Germany, we were being ordered about in the King's war with Germany.
• This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation and we live…
• No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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