H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 3

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• What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Earth, Way

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• Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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  Delight, Statistics, Scripture

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.6276, Delphi Classics

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• For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.

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  People, Giving, Interesting

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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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• 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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• The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

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  America, Mind, Influence

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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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• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

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  Stars, Distance, Past

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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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 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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• All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

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  Men, Religion, Educated

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Invisible Man”, p.80, Booklassic

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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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• 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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• ... 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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• The past is but the past of a beginning.

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  Past, Literature

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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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• 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.

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  Success, Hands, Done

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.25, Penguin UK

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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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• The future is the shape of things to come.

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  Shapes, Shape Of Things

  Title of book (1933)

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• A young mistress is better than an old master.

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  Mistress, Masters, Young

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.8143, Delphi Classics

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• Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

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  Wise, Men, Research

  H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.53, H. G. Wells

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

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  Play, Political, Cards

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• We must end war before war ends us.

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  War, Ends

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

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  Community, Criminals, Literature

  Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

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