H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 3

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• The past is but the past of a beginning.

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  Past, Literature

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• States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.

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  War, Eggs, Hens

  H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.308, Xist Publishing

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• Marriage isn't what it was. It's become a different thing because women have become human beings.

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  Different, Humans, Different Things

  H. G. Wells (1798). “Marriage”, p.337

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• 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.

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  Suffering, Purpose, Revolution

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• No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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  Writing, Stronger, World

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• We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. With out them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence.

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  Character, Order, Challenges

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• It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

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  Hate, Struggle, World Government

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• 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 mind.

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  Dog, Confused, Cat

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.7244, Delphi Classics

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• Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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  Writing, Littles, Life Is

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.1579, Delphi Classics

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• Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

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  Noble, Trustworthy, Form

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10933, Delphi Classics

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• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

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  Beauty, Golf, Men

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.4845, Delphi Classics

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• Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

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  War, Gun, Men

  H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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

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  Freedom, Democracies Have, Choices

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• A time will come when a politician who has willfully 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 men's lives should not stake their own.

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  Time, Peace, War

  H. G. Wells (2012). “The Salvaging of Civilization: The Probable Future of Mankind”, p.32, The Floating Press

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• Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

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  Life Changing, Science, Needs

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

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  Atheist, Heart, Atheism

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• There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

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  Believe, Men, Order

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• 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 malcontents.

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  Hate, Gun, Order

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• It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

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  Historical, Facts, Palestine

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• Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

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  Utopia, Trails, Cycles

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• Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness.

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  Needs, Outcomes, Premium

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.21, Sparklesoup LLC

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• ... life falls into place only with God.

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  Life, Fall, God Life

  H. G. Wells (2012). “Mr. Britling Sees it Through”, p.485, The Floating Press

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• What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

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  Calamity, Collapse, Ifs

  H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.109

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• I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

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  Christian, Believe, Evil

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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.

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  Nature, Children, Animal

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.238, Broadview Press

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