H. G. Wells Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• Advertising is legalized lying.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Advertising

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• The true strength of rulers and empires lies not in armies or emotions, but in the belief of men that they are inflexibly open and truthful and legal. As soon as a government departs from that standard it ceases to be anything more than 'the gang in possession,' and its days are numbered.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Army, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.14869, Delphi Classics

• There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Silly, Light

• I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Believe, Eugenics

• An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.

  H. G. Wells

  Real, Lying, Animal

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Doctor Moreau: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.92, 谷月社

• Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

  H. G. Wells

  Truth, Lying, Men

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

• No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

  H. G. Wells

  Art, Lying, Believe

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Time Machine”, p.90, H. G. Wells

• A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Order, World

• Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Lying, Risk

  "Fictional character: Oswald Cabal". "Things to Come", 1936.

• The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Savages

  'Love and Mr Lewisham' (1900) ch. 23

• I am prepared to maintain that Honesty is essentially an anarchistic and disintegrating force in society, that communities are held together and the progress of civilization made possible only by vigorous and sometimes even, violent Lying; that the Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good.

  H. G. Wells

  Honesty, Lying, Civilization

  "Love and Mr Lewisham". Book by H. G. Wells, Chapter 23, 1899.

• I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Thinking, Appreciate

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.1049, Delphi Classics

• Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Fear, Lying, Men

  Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) ch. 23

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