H. G. Wells Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Disappointment, Hate

• The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

  H. G. Wells

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Choices

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

  H. G. Wells

  Military, Democracy, Election

• Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Taken, Optimistic

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

  H. G. Wells

  Democracy, Ruins, Athenians

  H. G. Wells, J. F. Horrabin, William Ross (2004). “The Outline of History: Prehistory to the Roman Republic”, p.418, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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