3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else’s draft.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
