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. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 1
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. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 1
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it? H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
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. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
The path of least resistance is the path of the loser. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
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. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
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. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
History is a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0
Human history in essence is the history of ideas. H. G. Wells English Author More H. G. Wells Quotes 0