H. G. Wells Quotes, War Quotes

We must end war before war ends us.

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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Go away... I'm alright.

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Very much indeed of what we call moral education is such an artificial modification and perversion of instinct; pugnacity is trained into courageous self-sacrifice, and suppressed sexuality into religious emotion.

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I felt naked. I felt as perhaps a bird may feel in the clear air knowing the hawk wings above and will swoop. I began to feel the need of fellowship. I wanted to question, wanted to speak, wanted to relate my experience. What is this spirit in man that urges him forever to depart from happiness, to toil and to place himself in danger?

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The War That Will End War.

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With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

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We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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

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Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being

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The new century will see changes that will dwarf those of the last.

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A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

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Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.

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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

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

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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.

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I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.

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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

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