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Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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
Community, Criminals, Literature
Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, H. G. Wells (2003). “The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective: The Birth Control Classic”, p.54, Inkling Books

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

H. G. Wells
Pain, Adaptation, Time Machine
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.45, eKitap Projesi

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

H. G. Wells
Stars, Distance, Past
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H. G. Wells
Wise, Men, Research
H. G. Wells (2016). “A Modern Utopia”, p.53, H. G. Wells

The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.

H. G. Wells
America, Mind, Influence

... life falls into place only with God.

H. G. Wells
Life, Fall, God Life
H. G. Wells (2012). “Mr. Britling Sees it Through”, p.485, The Floating Press

The future is the shape of things to come.

H. G. Wells
Shapes, Shape Of Things
Title of book (1933)

Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

H. G. Wells
Book, Men, Shining
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

H. G. Wells
Thinking
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.5184, e-artnow

The past is but the past of a beginning.

H. G. Wells
Past, Literature

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

H. G. Wells
Dream, Opportunity, Men
H.G. Wells (2015). “A Short History of the World”, p.229, Xist Publishing

It is highly probable that the bulk of the Jew's ancestors 'never' lived in Palestine 'at all,' which witnesses the power of historical assertion over fact.

H. G. Wells
Historical, Facts, Palestine

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

H. G. Wells
Men, Religion, Educated
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Invisible Man”, p.80, Booklassic

The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

H. G. Wells
Success, Hands, Done
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Rights of Man”, p.25, Penguin UK

I do not believe I have any immortality. The greatest evil in the world today is the Christian religion

H. G. Wells
Christian, Believe, Evil

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

H. G. Wells
Play, Political, Cards

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

H. G. Wells
Change, Dwarves, Lasts

Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear to moderate-minded 'reasonable' men. Armament itself is making war. Making a gun, pointing a gun, and firing it are all acts of the same order. It should be illegal to construct anywhere upon earth any mechanism for the specific purpose of killing men. When you see a gun it is reasonable to ask: 'Whom is that intended to kill?'

H. G. Wells
War, Gun, Men
H. G. Wells (2007). “The New World Order”, p.114, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

H. G. Wells
Men, Years, Water
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.593, Delphi Classics

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

H. G. Wells
Writing, Thinking, One Day
Quoted in Warren Weaver's article Statistics Scientific American January 1952

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

H. G. Wells
Calamity, Collapse, Ifs
H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.109

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

H. G. Wells
Character, Peaceful, India

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

H. G. Wells
Crush, Truth, Humility
H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.2046, Delphi Classics

This blessed gift of smoking!

H. G. Wells
Blessed, Smoking
H. G. Wells (2015). “The Invisible Man: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.68, 谷月社

The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.

H. G. Wells
Slavery, Unjust, Inferiors
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.156, e-artnow

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