H. G. Wells Quotes, Left Quotes

It seems to me that I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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If all the animals and man had been evolved in this ascendant manner, then there had been no first parents, no Eden, and no Fall. And if there had been no fall, then the entire historical fabric of Christianity, the story of the first sin and the reason for an atonement ... collapsed like a house of cards.

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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great War must be. Great War is at present, I am convinced, not only the most expensive game in the universe, but it is a game out of all proportion. Not only are the masses of men and material and suffering and inconvenience too monstrously big for reason, but-the available heads we have for it, are too small. That, I think, is the most pacific realization conceivable, and Little War brings you to it as nothing else but Great War can do.

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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.

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The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

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The army ages men sooner than the law and philosophy; it exposes them more freely to germs, which undermine and destroy, and it shelters them more completely from thought, which stimulates and preserves.

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Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

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I hope, or I could not live.

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It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

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To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

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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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It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

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

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Cycle trails will abound in Utopia.

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Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen.

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

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