Quotes by Wells, H.G.

"Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions."

Wells, H.G. on adversity   

"Advertising is legalized lying."

Wells, H.G. on advertising
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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 to passers-by."

Wells, H.G. on economy and economics   

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"Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning."

Wells, H.G. on evolution   

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"Go away...I'm alright."

Wells, H.G. on famous last words
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"It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening."

Wells, H.G. on the future   

"The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships."

Wells, H.G. on getting ahead   

"One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good."

Wells, H.G. on goodness   

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"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."

Wells, H.G. on heaven   

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians   

"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians   

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians
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"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."

Wells, H.G. on humankind   

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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

Wells, H.G. on morality   

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

Wells, H.G. on patriotism   

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"Our true nationality is mankind."

Wells, H.G. on racism
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"In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it."

Wells, H.G. on reform   

"Fools make researches and wise men exploit them."

Wells, H.G. on research   

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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 afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex."

Wells, H.G. on sex   

"Go away, I'm all right!"

Wells, H.G. on solitude   

"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."

Wells, H.G. on success   

"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia."

Wells, H.G. on bicycles   

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"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative."

Wells, H.G. on change   

"I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own."

Wells, H.G. on time   

"The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow."

Wells, H.G. on tomorrow   

"There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection."

Wells, H.G. on ugliness   

"Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community."

Wells, H.G. on crime and criminals   

"Cynicism is humor in ill health."

Wells, H.G. on cynics and cynicism   

"The War That Will End War. "

Wells, H.G. on uncategorised   

"A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own. "

Wells, H.G. on uncategorised   

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

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