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H. G. Wells Quotes - Page 11

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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

Cat, Swings, Essentials

H. G. Wells (2012). “Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul”, p.219, The Floating Press

By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.

Men, Tolls, Earth

H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.270

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

Struggle, Agony, Law

H. G. Wells (2012). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.74, Courier Corporation

In the scientific world I find just that disinterested devotion to great ends that I hope will spread at last through the entire range of human activity.

Knowledge, World, Lasts

I believe that now and always the conscious selection of the best for reproduction will be impossible; that to propose it is to display a fundamental misunderstanding of what individuality implies. The way of nature has always been to slay the hindmost, and there is still no other way, unless we can prevent those who would become the hindmost being born. It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.

Lying, Believe, Eugenics

After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

Book, Savages, Letters

H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3304, Delphi Classics

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

Civilization, Birth Control, Heroines

Speech at Barber's Hall, London, in 1935. "Round the World for Birth Control", edited by the Birth Control International Information Centre, 1937.

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

School, Ideas, Two

H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

Once the command of the air is obtained by one of the contending armies, the war becomes a conflict between a seeing host and one that is blind.

War, Army, Air

H. G. Wells (2015). “Anticipations: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.97, 谷月社

It [a new world order] needs only that the governments of Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia should get together in order to set up an effective control of currency, credit, production, and distribution – that is to say, an effective ‘dictatorship of prosperity,’ for the whole world. The other sixty odd States would have to join in or accommodate themselves to the over-ruling decisions of these major Powers.

Russia, Government, Order

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.

Believe, Home, Successful

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.

Men, America, Prejudice

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

Military, Democracy, Election

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

Writing, Ideas

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?

Men, Knowing, Air

After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.

Inspirational, Dream, Memories

H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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.

Eye, Space, Mind

1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.1.

Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

Money, Taken, Optimistic

War is a curtain of dense black fabric across all the hopes and kindliness of mankind. Yet always it has let through some gleams of light, and not--I am not dreaming--it grows threadbare, and here and there and at a thousand points the light is breaking through.

Dream, Peace, War

H. G. Wells (2016). “H. G. WELLS Ultimate Collection: 120+ Science Fiction Classics, Novels & Stories; Including Scientific, Political and Historical Works: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Modern Utopia, A Short History of the World, What Is Coming, The Story of the Last Trump…”, p.2054, e-artnow

It is not much good thinking of a thing unless you think it out.

Thinking, Good Thinking

I saw a gray-haired man a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing.

Book, Writing, Men

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2056, Delphi Classics

The passion for playing Chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world

Passion, World, Playing Chess

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.8287, Delphi Classics

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

Patriotic, Proud, England

H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.5303, Delphi Classics

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

Morrow, Dear

H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

Fear, Fall

H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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