H. G. Wells Quotes, Taken Quotes, Character Quotes

The character of the Open Conspiracy [the movement towards a world collective] will now be plainly displayed. It will have become a great world movement as widespread and evident as socialism or communism. It will largely have taken the place of these movements. It will be more, it will be a world religion.

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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.

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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These are human teachings of the highest order and at the same time practicable. These teachings brought into existence a society in which hard-heartedness and collective oppression and injustice were the least as compared with all other societies preceding it....Islam is replete with gentleness, courtesy, and fraternity.

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This blessed gift of smoking!

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Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom.

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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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We must end war before war ends us.

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I hope, or I could not live.

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Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

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Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.

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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

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

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

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Few people who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year 2000 A.D., and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound.

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I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.

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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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Things that would have made fame of a less clever man seemed tricks in his hands. It is a mistake to do things too easily.

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...fact takes no heed of human hopes.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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