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
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously, 'Was there ever such a world?'
--H.G. Wells
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.
--H.G. Wells
Advertising is legalized lying.
--H.G. Wells
An animal may be ferocious and cunning enough, but it takes a real man to tell a lie.
--H.G. Wells
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
--H.G. Wells
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
Cynicism is humor in ill health.
--H.G. Wells
Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.
--H.G. Wells
Go away. I'm all right.
(attributed last words).
--H.G. Wells
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
--H.G. Wells
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.
--H.G. Wells
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
--H.G. Wells
Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions, great or small.
--H.G. Wells
I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.
--H.G. Wells
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
--H.G. Wells
If we don't end war, war will end us.
--H.G. Wells
Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum.
--H.G. Wells
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
--H.G. Wells
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
--H.G. Wells
Our true nationality is mankind.
--H.G. Wells
Religion is pickled God.
--H.G. Wells
Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand.
--H.G. Wells
Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been, and remember the person you were meant to be, the person you wanted to be, the person you are.
--H.G. Wells
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow.
--H.G. Wells
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it.
--H.G. Wells
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
--H.G. Wells
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
We all have our time machines, don't we. Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams.
--H.G. Wells
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